On 5/21/19 4:28 AM, Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote: > yeah, we are anticipating a big shit storm in our industry very soon > when every company out there will have to deploy Python 3 alongside > Python 2 (to be backwards compatible with industry standard software of > various versions). > not looking forward to it. > > On 21/05/19 1:56 PM, Tim Roberts wrote: >> Frank Rueter | OHUfx wrote: >>> >>> I know that, the problem is I work in an industry that has been >>> clinging onto Python 2.7 with al their major softwares for way too >>> long, it has not been my choice. >> >> It's hard to blame them. When Python 2 came out, it was so obviously >> superior to Python 1 that the world transitioned almost immediately. >> There was a period of overlap, but by the time of Python 2.2, almost >> everyone had moved up. >> >> It is a testament to Python 2 that it continues to retain a vibrant >> ecosystem even though its successor is all the way up to 3.7. >>
Hello Frank, Maybe you can learn from the experience at Dropbox when they migrated from 2 to 3. The had many tools to help the whole process: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2018/09/how-we-rolled-out-one-of-the-largest-python-3-migrations-ever/ Two devs gave a talk on PyCon this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Fuz7ubIoE Also Pinterest had a similar story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1vqfBEAkNA Cheers -- Dr. Cristian Maureira-Fredes Software Engineer The Qt Company GmbH Rudower Chaussee 13 D-12489 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B -- _______________________________________________ PySide mailing list PySide@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/pyside
