Python support policy

Gary E. Miller gem at rellim.com
Fri Sep 4 16:29:20 UTC 2020


Yo Eric!

On Fri, 4 Sep 2020 08:23:05 -0400
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> > As previously mentioned here: RHEL 6.  
> 
> Which is about to EOL.

Then let us table the discussion until all the major distros have
EOLed Python 2.

> 
> > 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.

If you think it is hard, then you are not experts.  Check out how
gpsd does it to learn from Eric how easy it is.

RGDS
GARY
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