Catching up

Fred Wright fw at fwright.net
Tue Feb 4 04:49:04 UTC 2025


On Mon, 3 Feb 2025, Hal Murray via devel wrote:

>> Uh, yes.  I'll continue to object.  It buys us nothing now, and it will
>> annoy some people.  Maybe later this year.
>
> OK.  I guess I missed your previous objections.
>
> Have we actually made contact with anybody using python2 (and NTPsec)?
>
> Should we put a note in NEWS saying this is the last release supporting
> python2?

Did you see my comment about how dropping Python 2 before getting rid of 
the polyXXX wrapers is dangerous, because removing the wrappers without 
properly fixing the underlying code is more likely to break Python 3 than 
Python 2?

Fred Wright


More information about the devel mailing list