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Python 2.7 will not be maintained by PSF soon anyways.
by ergo14 10y ago
Python 2.7 will not be maintained by PSF soon anyways.
- tedmiston 10y agoThe Python 2.x EOL was extended to 2020.
- JCzynski 10y agoI suspect Python 2.x will be extended like copyright.
- djsumdog 10y agoI doubt it and that argument makes no sense. Copyright is extended thanks to the lobbying effort of huge business like Disney in order to make a ton more money. Unless you see some big corporate support contracts coming over the horizon for PSF, not to mention they'd have to be worth the money vs the technical debt, I don't think Py2 support will get extended.
- JCzynski 10y agoBacklash from the tons of big companies still using it will become lobbying to keep it supported. I don't expect them to stop in the next couple years, or the next few, etc. There's less muscle behind keeping Python 2, but there's a lot less muscle needed to keep it going than to extend copyright.
- dragonwriter 10y agoWhich, I believe, is also the support timeline for the Django 1.x LTS release before 2.0. So Django plans to support Python 2.x as long as the PSF does.
- ergo14 10y agoYeah thats 3 years for now... thats very little time - especially if you have to migrate old projects.
- tedmiston 10y agoThe same argument could be made for any arbitrary amount of time though. 1 week is not enough 1 month is not enough 1 year is not enough 5 years is not enough 10 years is not enough 20 years is not enough... Do you really have Python projects that can't be migrated in 3 years? At some point the line has to be drawn to move everyone forward. Extending the EOL for the last long-term of 2.7.x by 5 additional years is pretty generous. https://pythonclock.org/ https://pythonclock.org/
- ergo14 10y agoI think you completly misunderstood my comment ;-) And yes 3 years for some projects with small teams is barely enough :)