What's the state for Centos? I think it was the last likely distro we cared about with old python needs, but I'm not sure core supports it at all any more.
On October 1, 2017 2:12:46 PM PDT, Abhilash Raj <maxk...@asynchronous.in> wrote: >Hi All, > >Mailman uses Django web framework for the web based frontends, >Postorius >- The Official UI, and Hyperkitty - The official Archiver. They are >both >Django "apps" which means that they can be plugged into any other >existing Django "project" (aka Django "installation") to work alongside >other apps that people might be running. > >Currently, both the Django apps we have are Python 2 only, we have >talked about moving to Python 3 but we decided we want it to be >bilingual (support both 2 & 3). The reason we decided that was because >if people would want to embed Postorius & Hyperkitty in their >installations, they need to be able to run it under whatever python >versions they are using. > >I want to revisit this assumption for being bilingual. Currently, there >is no supported version of Django which doesn't support Python 3. >Starting from v2.0, set to release in December 2017, Django is going to >drop Python2 support. Now, that doesn't mean no one can run Django >under >Python2, 1.11 (LTS version) supports Python2 and will be supported >probably till Python 2 is supported (April 2020 according to [1]). > >I believe that our (limited) development efforts would be best utilized >if we just drop the support for Python 2 in Postorius & Hyperkitty >instead of trying to be bilingual. Any day one of our dependencies may >decide to do the same, and we would have to then use Python 3 anyway. >Also, dropping Python 2 support doesn't seem like a lot of pain for >anyone, you just need another instance of Django running, which is not >*that* hard using uwsgi (in Emperor mode). I believe most of our >dependencies should support Python 3, or should have a good enough >replacement if it doesn't. > > >Thoughts? > >[1]: https://www.djangoproject.com/download/ > >-- > Abhilash Raj > maxk...@asynchronous.in >_______________________________________________ >Mailman-Developers mailing list >Mailman-Developers@python.org >https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers >Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 >Searchable Archives: >http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ >Unsubscribe: >https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/terri%40toybox.ca > >Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
