On 2025-07-11 at 20:14:29 UTC-0400 (Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:14:29 +1000)
raf via macports-users <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
[...]
It might be officially dead, but it's unofficially undead.
I know of a python2/wxPython program that still can't easily
be ported to python3
One of the most prominent examples of this is the GNU Mailman v2 mailing
list manager. It has been "undead" for many years despite Mailman v3
existing and running on Python 3.
Porting to Python3 from Python2 is a non-trivial task, particularly if a
program needs to handle text in multiple encodings. Many programs never
made the change, despite having a long time to do so.
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