From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Apr 17 22:51:57 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE5FB2AE8C8 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:51:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (mailman.nyi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::50:13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493rv12nBVz3R6T for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:51:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dim@FreeBSD.org) Received: by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 5F3612AE8C7; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:51:57 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE842AE8C6 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:51:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [96.47.72.83]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 493rv10mM4z3R6S; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:51:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from tensor.andric.com (tensor.andric.com [87.251.56.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "tensor.andric.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) (Authenticated sender: dim) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EF74511ACF; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:51:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:7a58::80cf:4de2:e73:50c5] (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:7a58:0:80cf:4de2:e73:50c5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tensor.andric.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 572893EE3A; Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:51:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Dimitry Andric Message-Id: <102F7F34-78D0-45D8-A6CD-54C90BD46791@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_A96E17EE-C9A5-410D-AE38-31574535D403"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.14\)) Subject: Re: python 2.7 marked as deprecated and EOL while 2.7.18 RC is available Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:51:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-ports To: Dewayne Geraghty References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.14) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:51:57 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_A96E17EE-C9A5-410D-AE38-31574535D403 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 17 Apr 2020, at 14:11, Dewayne Geraghty = wrote: >=20 > Its very confusing building ports at the moment. At = https://www.python.org/ > there is a release candidate for 2.7.18, while our python 2.7 has been > marked as deprecated with an expiration date. Can the Expiration Date = of > 2020-12-31 be retracted? >=20 > It appears that devel/scons, at least, requires python 2.7 to run; = though > it builds with 3.7. See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/; python 2.x is now really dead, and has been since 2020-01-01. But it is unfortunately terribly confusing for end-users that they're apparently still planning on shipping another "really final final" 2.7.18 version. A petition against this bad idea is here: = https://discuss.python.org/t/petition-abandon-plans-to-ship-a-2-7-18-in-ap= ril/2946 But basically, expect all python 2.x using ports to go away, unless they get fixed to use python 3.x, or no python at all. -Dimitry --Apple-Mail=_A96E17EE-C9A5-410D-AE38-31574535D403 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.2 iF0EARECAB0WIQR6tGLSzjX8bUI5T82wXqMKLiCWowUCXpozBQAKCRCwXqMKLiCW o1EjAJ0VfRJ2r9SbiKF5Unm6OgfeJeTAQwCcCsgY89j8bbDmvmkPwZSFUVz3rDE= =3AJS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_A96E17EE-C9A5-410D-AE38-31574535D403--