Python support policy

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> As previously mentioned here: RHEL 6.

Which is about to EOL.

> Supporting Python 2 is trivial.  Why the hate?

Because it's not in fact trivial. It's *doable*; Peter Donis and I are
the expers on how to do it.  But it's not trivial.  It proliferates
code and test paths, and therefore increases attack surface.

Therefore we should drop Python 2 support as soon as the benefit of
keeping it drops below the cost.  I think that happens the moment
python3 becomes a reliable thing to put in shebangs on all our
primary platforms.

There's a strong case this has already occurred, and that case will
be closed when RHEL 6 goes EOL.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>


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