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>With five years left until people will need to pay for Python 2 support, ... Is this some sort of thing?

• kemayo 11y ago
  It's just the author pointing out that the EOL for official support for Python 2 is 2020. After then, the Python dev team won't be providing any (free) support, so people who want to keep using it will have to pay for it in some way -- whether by investing time in maintaining a fork, or by paying someone else to do so. The absence of a "Python 2.8" fork suggests that the idea of forking hasn't been popular enough to happen organically without someone putting money in, after all.
  • someguydave 11y ago
    >The absence of a "Python 2.8" fork suggests that the idea of forking hasn't been popular enough to happen organically without someone putting money in, after all. Or it's evidence that python 2.7 works just fine for many people.
• Ded7xSEoPKYNsDd 11y ago
  Cent OS 7 will support Python 2 for free until 2024. I would assume most patches will work without changes on other OSes as well. But if you want someone to do the QA work (and compiling) for you and no independent Python 2 fork will arise, you'd presumably have to pay someone for that. Beyond that, apparently you can pay Red Hat to big bucks to provide you with bug fixes for really old Red Hat releases in a similar way you can pay Microsoft big bucks to get patches for Windows XP even today. I'm sure other companies will do the same if they can find enough customers that find porting costs more than such a support contract.