Re: Version Woes

[Derek Atkins]

Tomas Pospisek <address@hidden> writes:

>> And to follow up to this, not only does F32 have Python 2.7, it also has
>> Python 2.6!  So I don't think Python 2 is going away any time soon.
>
> Python 2 has been officially declared "end of life":
>
> https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/
>
> Python is only "not going away" in the sense that you can not erase the
> past and that still existing remainders of it are not being aggressively
> deleted. But in most other meanings of that phrase, in particular those
> related to software, I think one *can* robustly say that "Python 2 *is*
> going away".

Just because it is EoL doesn't mean it will disappear quickly.  It could
be YEARS before it completely disappears.  For example, the FINAL
release of Python 2.6 was October 29, 2013 but, as I pointed out, it's
still in Fedora 32 (which was just released YESTERDAY).  This is almost
7 years past it's EOL date, and it's still being shipped (read:
supported) by RedHat / Fedora.  Python 2.7 hasn't even been EOLed yet
(although it's coming quickly)!

So, frankly, based on that 2.6 is still being shipped after 7 years, I
think we have a good DECADE before we'll stop seeing Python 2.7.

-derek

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