Hi Dave, I fully agree with you. Having one release, bridging the move between py2 and py3 should be more than enough for most users.
Heavy adaptations, like Vehicle Forge, or such, might have more problems to port their stuff. But as you said: py2 is dead already! Personally I experienced a lot of compatibility problems in our internal python tools, starting with Python 3.8. So I would propose to officially support only one specific py3 version. This could currently be 3.7. Cheers, Ingo Dave Brondsema <d...@brondsema.net> schrieb am Do., 4. März 2021, 00:38: > On 3/3/21 6:36 PM, Dave Brondsema wrote: > > It's been well over a year since the last Allura release, I can prepare > the next > > one soon, but wanted to discuss what versions of python we support. > > > > Python 3 support has been added over the past year. Specifically Allura > should > > work on python 3.6 and 3.7. I haven't tested 3.5 but that's not too > common of a > > release I think. Python 3.8 and beyond will need additional changes to > support, > > but shouldn't be too difficult. > > > > Python 2 is still fully supported in Allura right now, so this release > will be a > > good bridging step for anyone updating their python versions. How long > should > > we support Python 2? It is end-of-life over a year now, but I know OS > > distributions and larger organizations can take longer to upgrade. Is > anyone > > running Allura where they can't switch to Python 3.6+? > > > > I would suggest that this be the only release of Allura to support both > python 2 > > & 3. The following release could start dropping python 2 support, which > will > > make it easier to move forward with python 3.8 and 3.9. And make the > code > > simpler and cleaner. > > > > I forgot to add that one bit of code still on python 2 is the mod_python > ApacheAccessHandler.py used for hosting code repos and doing permission > checks > on them. That is separate from the main Allura codebase, so I don't think > that's a blocker. Ingo and I have been discussing options on > https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/tickets/8352/ since its not real > clear > how to proceed yet. > > -- > Dave Brondsema : d...@brondsema.net > http://www.brondsema.net : personal > http://www.splike.com : programming > <>< >
