Anybody still using Python2?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:05:11 -0800
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> Gary said:
> > And yet, we still get complaints.  There are maintained Python 2.7
> > forks that some distros still use and update.  
> 
> I've seen at least one distro that had python 3 but python still went
> to python 2.  I assume they had a lot of code that still needed
> python 2.
> 
> For setups like that, we should be able tell our code to use python 3.

Yes, which still leaves the folks with only Python 2.7.xx in the cold.

> Another possibility would be to ship a release that still supports
> 2.6, but with a big warning.  Then we can ship another release
> quickly after that which drops support for python 2.

I have heard no one in a long time that wants 2.6

RGDS
GARY
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