[arch-dev-public] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-02 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
After a bit of research work and making sure one or two things have been properly packaged, I've developed a PKGBUILD which ensures that a system has the POSIX shell and utilities (XCU) section installed. I believe this is an interesting thing to track, and people will want to know they have it ins

Re: [arch-dev-public] Killing Python 2 (v2)

2020-01-02 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
On 1/2/20 7:19 PM, keenerd via arch-dev-public wrote: > On 1/2/20, Jelle van der Waa wrote: >> * rox - python2, dead and GTK2 > > Also was an easy fix. Well, the python2 part at least. > > -Kyle https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65023 There are a couple of forks apparently, which might be worth

Re: [arch-dev-public] Killing Python 2 (v2)

2020-01-02 Thread keenerd via arch-dev-public
On 1/2/20, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > * rox - python2, dead and GTK2 Also was an easy fix. Well, the python2 part at least. -Kyle

Re: [arch-dev-public] Killing Python 2 (v2)

2020-01-02 Thread keenerd via arch-dev-public
On 1/2/20, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > * armagetronad - dead upstream, optional dep can be removed Fixed instead. It still works a treat. -Kyle

Re: [arch-dev-public] Killing Python 2 (v2)

2020-01-02 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public
Em janeiro 2, 2020 14:10 Brett Cornwall escreveu: On 2020-01-02 13:43, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: Er, the first end-of-life was five years ago and was then extended to 2020 to help accommodate the transition. I think a five-year grace period was long enough already... W

Re: [arch-dev-public] Killing Python 2 (v2)

2020-01-02 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public
Em janeiro 2, 2020 13:24 Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public escreveu: * pycharm-community-edition - remove python2 support Seems reasonable to not encourage people to use python2 in an IDE these days. Hi All, As we have discussed on IRC, I think that editors and python2 *lint* and *syntax* c

Re: [arch-dev-public] Killing Python 2 (v2)

2020-01-02 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public
On 1/2/20 11:12 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > # Remove python2 support > > * pycharm-community-edition - remove python2 support Seems reasonable to not encourage people to use python2 in an IDE these days. > * vim - remove python2 support Are there any stats on vim ecosystem plugins which use

Re: [arch-dev-public] Killing Python 2 (v2)

2020-01-02 Thread Santiago Torres-Arias via arch-dev-public
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 05:12:33PM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > For packages still providing python2 functionality such as vim and > others I propose we remove python2 support to actively to discourage > people using it. I was +1 on this > # Remove python2 support > > * pycharm-community

[arch-dev-public] Killing Python 2 (v2)

2020-01-02 Thread Jelle van der Waa
Hi All, 2020 happened and Python 2 is very much still alive, even worse there will be an update in April. However we should actively strive to get rid of Python 2 before it. Some upstreams are (still) working on porting to Python 3 such as Kodi, inkscape, mercurial and many more but for packages