[Python-Dev] The end of 2.7 (original) (raw)
Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sun Apr 7 10:01:44 CEST 2013
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On 07/04/13 17:44, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:
Martin, you guys are shooting yourself in a foot. Almost noone uses python 3 in production, even at pycon, which is the more progressive crowd. There is a giant group of people using python that are not as vocal. While I bet some are using Python 3, Python 2 is incredibly popular for the "long tail" of libraries and applications. How much is 2.7 a burden? There are no major changes and it's pretty cool to consider it "done". Indeed - hence I think it is just fine to stop applying bug fixes to it, as well. People for whom it works fine today apparently don't run into any significant bugs. They can happily continue to use it as-is for ten or more years. It will not go away just when we reduce changes to security fixes. It will remain available for download, the documentation will keep being online, people can continue to ask questions about it on python-list, and continue to get answers.
+1
On the python-list@ mailing list, we occasionally get posts from people still using Python 2.3, and regularly from people on 2.5.
Stopping to apply bug fixes does not really end Python 2.7.
It's only that people who do run into bugs don't have the option anymore that we will eventually publish a fixed release. Their options reduce to - port to 3.x (particularly interesting if Python 3.x already fixed it) - find a work-around - maintain a bug fix locally - do something else entirely (like abandoning Python)
Or, if they have paid support from a vendor like Red Hat, hassle the vendor for a fix. Speaking of 2.3, as I understand it Red Hat still offer paid support for 2.3, which won't expire for a few more years, and security fixes only for some years beyond that.
[By memory, which may not be entirely accurate.]
-- Steven
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