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Python 2.7 will be forked in...

• viraptor 7y ago
  If there's legitimate need and enough support, it will be. But I haven't seen any company announcing their fork and services so far. It may not happen on a larger scale.
  • csande17 7y ago
    Red Hat will continue to support Python 2 until 2024: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511 https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511
    • usr1106 7y ago
      But Python is not GPL or similarly restrictively licensed, so RH is not obliged to publish the changed code they produce for their paying customers. Whether they will do e. g. via CentOS I have not investigated.
      • jcelerier 7y ago
        to be fair, all the CVEs I see in the last few years are related to urllib (https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-10210/product_id-18230/version_id-92056/year-2019/Python-Python-2.7.html https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1021...) - there are tons and tons of applications which aren't even using any kind of network communications, does it matter for them that Python gets updated ?
    • viraptor 7y ago
      Ah, yes. I meant a different model. RH does support as in backporting required patches and generally making things not stop. What I thought was implied by a fork was more of a consultancy / paid support like https://railslts.com/ https://railslts.com/
• dogmatism 7y ago
  As I recall the developer of the Calibre e-book application wanted to do this, but has come to his senses.
• stefantalpalaru 7y ago
  > Python 2.7 will be forked in... It already was: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/ https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/