Tick-tock... just bumping this up as the year end approaches! Any interest in making a statement or plan for python2 support for future releases of Avro?
There should be one more maintenance release of python 2.7 in 2020 (after sunset) for the accumulated fixes. I'm in the context of looking at the docker+build scripts: keeping or dropping the python2 runtime has little significant impact. Ryan On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 1:22 PM Michael A. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Inline… > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 05:03 Ismaël Mejía <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Probably is a good idea that we publish our policy around python > > support [1] as other projects have done [2]. > > I think supporting python 2 makes sense at least for our latest > > release of this year so probably 1.9.x or eventually 1.10.x. > > > i agree wholeheartedly, but only python 2.7. > > I am not at all familiar with our python3 codebase, are we feature > > equivalent? otherwise maybe worth to create JIRAs and work on those. > > > Not perfectly, and there is work on that, but the biggest gap is that > lang/py is much more extensively tested, but its tests use pyant, which I > have not yet figured out how to port. > > [1] https://pythonclock.org/ > > [2] https://python3statement.org/ > > > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 9:38 AM Driesprong, Fokko <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > I'm not sure how much effort we should put into Python2.7 in general, > > since > > > this version is EOL after this year. > > > > > > Cheers, Fokko > > > > > > Op ma 24 jun. 2019 om 03:20 schreef Michael A. Smith < > > [email protected]>: > > > > > > > There's some not-insignificant complexity in the lang/py codebase to > > > > support derelict versions of Python. There are polyfills for json, > > structs, > > > > a whole "StoppableHTTPServer" in avro.tool. > > > > > > > > I created AVRO-2445 and will start removing this stuff now, but wanted > > to > > > > bounce the idea around the list in case there's some obscure reason to > > keep > > > > these things around. > > > > > >
