On Fri, 8 Sep 2017 08:40 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Leam Hall <leamh...@gmail.com>: >> However, those millions of servers are running Python 2.6 and a >> smaller number running 2.7. At least in the US market since Red Hat >> Enterprise Linux and its derivatives run 2.6.6 (RHEL 6) or 2.7.5 (RHEL >> 7). Not sure what Python SuSE uses but they seem to have a fairly >> large European footprint. RHEL 7 goes out the active support door (End >> of Production Phase 3) mid-2024. > > Ok, the owners of those millions of servers have a problem in their > hands. > > What you are saying is that there will be a bonanza next year for Python > 2-to-3 consultants. It will also involve a forced upgrade to RHEL 8 > (which is nowhere in sight yet).
Next year is 2018, not 2024. And there's always the possibility of paying Red Hat for extended support. (By the way, RHEL 6 goes out of Production Phase 3 in 2020.) -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
