Re: add DEPRECATION grace period: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2018-12-27 Thread Alex Vong
Hello everyone! Leo Famulari writes: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 02:33:55PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: >> A lot of software outside Guix still depends on Python2, for better or >> worse. I don't believe EOL means they are going to drop security >> updates. Leaf packages may well be in use today. >

Re: add DEPRECATION grace period: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2018-12-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 02:33:55PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > A lot of software outside Guix still depends on Python2, for better or > worse. I don't believe EOL means they are going to drop security > updates. Leaf packages may well be in use today. I do think it means that the current Python

add DEPRECATION grace period: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2018-12-26 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 01:30:53PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > Efraim Flashner writes: > > > We're now about a year out from the official EOL for python2 (Jan 1, > > 2020). So far we've been not adding python2 variants of packages that > > are new unless they're actually needed for something.