Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-11 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal!

On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:03:45 -0700
Hal Murray via devel  wrote:

> Maybe it's time to switch to Go?

Please, no.  Go is a garbage collected language.  Just what NTPsec does
not need, random, unpredictable delays.

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Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-11 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Thanks.

Maybe it's time to switch to Go?

How long would it take us to rewrite, from scratch, everything in ntpclients?

I occasionally poke around in ntpq.  I find it very hard to work with.  I 
think the others are much simpler.

Is the basic structure right?  If we were starting from scratch, what would 
pylib look like?


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Re: Is python2 dead?

2023-09-11 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Hal Murray via devel :
> Really really dead?  Or maybe just hiding in some dark corner?

Python 2 was end-of-lifed on 1 Jan 2020.  It looks pretty dead from where I'm 
sitting,
but I'm aware that people who run RHEL have a different opynion.

> Should we drop support for python2 as part of the next release?
> Or announce in the next release that we will drop it as part of the following 
> release?

The policy I havee for my projects these days is that I leave the poly
machinery in place untiil I want to do something Python 3 specific, then
I drop it.

I would be OK with your second alternative.
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