Supporting both as a next step is logical, removing support for 2 in the next year or two seems reasonable enough. Gotta rip the band aid off at some point.
On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 2:34 AM Michael Burman <mibur...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Deprecating in this context does not mean removing it or it being > replaced by 3 (RHEL 7.x will remain with Python 2.x as default). It > refers to future versions (>7), but there are none at this point. It > appears Ubuntu has deviated from Debian in this sense, but Debian has > not changed yet (likely Debian 10 will, but that's not out yet and has > no announced release date). > > Thus, 2.x still remains the most used version for servers. And servers > deployed at this point of time will use these versions for years. > > - Micke > > > On 06/01/2018 10:52 AM, Murukesh Mohanan wrote: > > On 2018/06/01 07:40:04, Michael Burman <mibur...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> IIRC, there's no major distribution yet that defaults to Python 3 (I > >> think Ubuntu & Debian are still defaulting to Python 2 also). This will > >> happen eventually (maybe), but not yet. Discarding Python 2 support > >> would mean more base-OS work for most people wanting to run Cassandra > >> and that's not a positive thing. > >> > > Ubuntu since 16.04 defaults to Python 3: > > > >> Python2 is not installed anymore by default on the server, cloud and > the touch images, long live Python3! Python3 itself has been upgraded to > the 3.5 series. - > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes#Python_3 > > RHEL 7.5 deprecates Python 2 ( > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.5_release_notes/chap-red_hat_enterprise_linux-7.5_release_notes-deprecated_functionality > ). > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > > -- Jon Haddad http://www.rustyrazorblade.com twitter: rustyrazorblade
