[Buildroot] Python 2.7 end of life on January 1, 2020
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Sat Mar 2 20:12:53 UTC 2019
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> writes:
> Hello,
> Through a LWN.net article, I recently realized that Python 2.7 will see
> its end of life on January 1, 2020, according to:
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/
> You also have a fancy countdown at:
> https://pythonclock.org/
> This means that our 2020.02 LTS release probably should not have Python
> 2.x anymore ?
Yes, it is too late to change for 2019.02, but 2020.02 should probably
not include it unless somebody else steps up and maintains it when it
goes EOL.
> If that's our decision, then we should probably discuss the deprecation
> path we want to follow to strongly warn users that they should migrate
> away from Python 2.x.
Hasn't that been the published statement by the upstream Python
developers ever since 3.x was released 10 years ago? I am not sure what
else we could/should do, besides perhaps mentioning it in the 2019.02
release notes?
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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