On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 12:33 AM Kevin Kofler via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > #3244 Change: Retire Python 2.7 > > https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3244 > > APPROVED (+8, 0, 0) > > This is going to break the build of a whole bunch of compatibility packages, > which will in turn break a lot of software in Fedora. > > Do you expect packages to do what Qt5WebEngine did for EPEL and bundle their > own copy of Python 2 to be used at build time? This just does not make any > sense whatsoever. > > For Qt5WebEngine, there is now a patch from Arch Linux to make it build with > Python 3 that we could apply, but both the Qt 4 and 5 QtWebKit require > Python 2 to build. As do several other packages, I am pretty sure.
> both the Qt 4 and 5 QtWebKit require Python 2 to build https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/#_first > First > > We are committed to innovation. > > We are not content to let others do all the heavy lifting on our behalf; > we provide the latest in stable and robust, useful, and powerful free software > in our Fedora distribution. > > At any point in time, the latest Fedora platform shows the future direction > of the operating system as it is experienced by everyone > from the home desktop user to the enterprise business customer. > Our rapid release cycle is a major enabling factor in our ability to innovate. > > We recognize that there is also a place for long-term stability in the Linux > ecosystem, > and that there are a variety of community-oriented and business-oriented > Linux distributions available to serve that need. > However, the Fedora Project’s goal of advancing free software > dictates that the Fedora Project itself pursue a strategy > that preserves the forward momentum of our technical, collateral, > and community-building progress. Fedora always aims to provide the future, > first. Qt 5 has not beent "latest in stable" since 2020. Python 2 is dead since 2020. QtWebKit was deprecated in, what, 2016? Qt4 should've disappeared even earlier than that. So, no, we don't expect Fedora to go backwards and bundle long-dead software in dark corners of its packaging. Quite the opposite of that. We expect it to go forward full-speed, ideally good ~5-10 years faster than it does now. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
