On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 2:00 AM Alexander Kanavin via lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 at 17:03, Martin Jansa <[email protected]> wrote: > > As there is strong opinion against declaring scarthgap compatibility > > in official meta-python2 from Timo, Alex and Jose, I don't plan to > > merge Marek's change (nor my version with additional fixes for > > Upstream-Status etc). > > There's more to it. It's a protest against people focusing on obsolete > retro computing stuff because of their poor product planning, while > offering no help to keep things current. It took me two months to > update python to 3.12 while ensuring nothing breaks in core or > meta-oe. Something you Marek perhaps don't need right now, but will > certainly need in the future. Did you help? > To echo what Alex is saying here (I have spent months of my life, uncompensated for the effort, to bring the pyproject.toml and other new PEP-517 build backend classes into oe-core, with a lot of very hard effort from RP and Ross). In addition, with my OpenEmbedded Board member hat on and my OpenEmbedded TSC member hat on, I take this stance: We as an organization in no way whatsoever want anyone to think it is ok to continue to use python2. You have had well over a decade of warning and foreshadowing. The licensing probably means we do not have any actual legal liability exposure, but in our modern litigious society, this is no guarantee. You have had two years of kirkstone support and still have two more years before kirkstone is EOL. This is the end of the line. This is where this stops. Plan your way out of this situation and move on. Tim We cannot control what users and companies want to bring into their own layers. They are welcome to at their > > Alex > > > >
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