Re: Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

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>>>>> "RG" == Raphael Groner <raphgro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

RG> what to do with packages that can not be ported to python3?

Can anything really not be ported to python3?  I suppose if there was
something which messed with the internals of the python interpreter in
some way then that would potentially never be portable to python3, but
instances of that should be quite rare.

If the software is dead upstream, or upstream truly does not want to
port to python2, nobody wants to do the port or the Fedora maintainer
simply does not wish to carry patches to make things work with python3
and python2 is no longer in the distribution then... what else can be
done besides dropping the software?

Eventually all Linux distributions will have to do the same, or will
have to carry (or share) the burden of maintaining the python2
interpreter.  Software which requires python2 will become increasingly
difficult to use and I imagine that most authors would want to see their
software ported rather than have it become increasingly difficult to use
without the user having to build or obtain their own python2
interpreter.

 - J<
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