On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Dmitry Shachnev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sebastien, > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 08:08:35PM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote: >> Hey Barry, >> >> Le 08/03/2016 17:36, Barry Warsaw a écrit : >> > I know this makes things less friendly for people who need Windows >> > resources, >> > but until Samba itself gets fully ported, our choices are rather limited: >> > keep >> > two Python stacks on the desktop image or provide a hook to install the >> > required packages when needed. >> >> Do we plan to reduce/drop support for python2.7 if we get it out of the >> iso? Or what's the direct result out of those efforts out of sending a >> message and winning some CD space? > > In my opinion "sending a message" is a quite a big result. Currently even > developers of new apps sometimes consider using Python 2 because it "works > out of the box everywhere" unlike Python 3 (which may not be present on some > old distros). If we ship LTS with Python 3 only, this will be no longer the > case. I.e. it will make the world moving to Python 3 a bit faster. > > And the earlier the world moves to Python 3, the earlier we will be able to > reduce/drop support for Python 2. >
It's also important to note that the lifespan of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS does go past the Python 2 expected maintenance period (end of the decade). And as Ubuntu LTS is one of the most popular platforms for developers to use, it strengthens the case to push for Python 2 code to port over to Python 3. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
