Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal: Drop Optical Media Release Criterion

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On Monday, December 16, 2019 6:30:14 PM MST Adam Williamson wrote:
> Yup. This was anticipated. What's the alternative? We never drop Python
> 2 support in order to keep software that is clearly becoming
> increasingly out of date in a distribution which has "First" as one of
> its core principles? This is just another angle on "it is almost never
> the case that, when Fedora stops caring about something, it's a thing
> that absolutely nobody and nothing wants". There has to be a cut-off.
> There's probably *someone* out there who still has a Python 1
> interpreter installed. And libc 5. On a 386SX. Should Fedora still work
> on it?

In my opinion, this should be supported, even if stuck at the last version 
packaged, until that version no longer works. If nobody wants to put in the 
work to make the package work at that point, THEN is the time to drop it, in 
my opinion.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.
Splentity

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