Python 3 Support: A Plan of Action

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 11:30:25PM -0600, Richard Wilbur wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Stefan Monnier
> <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> >> I might suggest continuing to support Python 3.4 even after 3.5 is released,
> >> at least for a little while.
> >
> > That's only an issue if you expect systems to come with Python3 < 3.5 but
> > without Python2 >= 2.7.10
> >
> Agreed, Stefan.  Do you expect there will be many systems that package
> Python2 < 2.7.10?  Looks like v2.7.10 was released on 23 May 2015.[0]
> When do you think there will be widespread adoption of Python 2.7.10?
It's likely to take at least a couple of years. Some distributions
(e.g. RHEL) only release every couple of years, and after that it
usually takes a while for their customers to upgrade.

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Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
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