On 18 January 2018 at 13:45, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 07:32:07PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: >> Once there is a new EPEL version out there, it is very likely both >> pythons will be available there as well. > > Given that Python 2 is going EOL in about two years, I don't think we > want it in EPEL proper. If we do provide it, it should be in a module. >
It has been requested by multiple people to go into EPEL proper. I honestly don't expect any uptake on modules in EPEL land until RHEL-8.2 in the same way that other Fedora items from 18 weren't wanted by people until it had 'solidified' in RHEL-7.3. Modules are something which is landing in the distro just now and we aren't shipping a working distro that Enterprise people can say "Oh that would be useful".. at the moment they will just reply "That's horse pucky" because it is the default answer to vendor software until proven otherwise. Modules will get used, but I expect that the majority of initial users will just want what they had before.. with just newer versions. My current idea is to have python27 from RHEL-7 for as long as RHEL-7 is around. It would either sit in /usr/bin or /opt/epel depending on what is easier for developers. It is the standard issue with the innovator's dilemna. The audience we know we have wants things like they had because they have already sunk costs in it. We have to find the new audience that wants the innovation versus expecting the existing one to use it OR that the new one will come to us. > -- > Matthew Miller > <mat...@fedoraproject.org> > Fedora Project Leader > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
