In a message of Sun, 19 Jul 2015 09:29:11 -0600, Ian Kelly writes: >I think this is an unrealistic and unattainable goal. Even if you stop >patching your Python 2.7 version altogether, what about the >environment that it runs in? Are you going to stop patching the OS >forever? Are you going to fix the current machine architecture exactly >as it is, forever? I don't know if industrial code uses a network much >or at all, but if it does, are you never going to upgrade your network >infrastructure?
There is clearly some wishful thinking going around here, but in terms of having the same machine architecture forever ... well, my friend the hardware guy can make you a board that you can plug your old perfectly working, reliable 1970s tech machines into -- because they really want to be plugged into a pdp-11 running RSX-11. Then we fake things using Python to simulate enough RSX-11 to keep on running. We figure the machines will still be running long after we are dead. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list