On 8 May 2020, at 9:12, Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> wrote:
> On 8/5/20 3:50 pm, Anders Montonen wrote:
>
>> On a not completely unrelated note, have there been any thoughts about
>> setting a timetable for deprecating Python 2 support now that it is EOL, eg.
>> in RTEMS6? Are there any specific host platforms you want to support that
>> don’t have Python 3?
> We cannot just yet because we have users who run long life operating systems
> and cannot move. This is one of the roles RTEMS provides. We maintain tools
> and the OS longer than others and on older target hardware. Large orgs cannot
> retool just because it exists.
Right, which is why you set a timetable to give sufficient advance warning, and
coincide it with a major release. Though I would have assumed that these kinds
of users don’t really switch to newer releases anyway.
Regards,
Anders
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