The drivers are being dropped because of their complexity and lack of use. With an all-volunteer effort, we have to husband our resources. Something has to go.
Python 3 is definitely very mature and 100% "baked." No reason not to use it, if you can. No plans to drop Python 2. -tk On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 6:21 AM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > > CHANGES COMING! This is the last release that will support the LaCrosse > WS23xx, > Oregon WMR200 and WMR300 stations. In the future, they will be published > as > unsupported extensions. > > This is definitely not a complaint, and sorry if I have failed to notice > list traffic about this. > > I don't have any of those stations, so this won't affect me. But given > the overall "weewx way", I find this surprising. I wonder if they are > troubled and nobody has volunteered to fix,if there is some reason they > are too hard to keep working, or if there are too many unreasonable > demands for support, or something else? > > > I'm also curious if there is a plan/timeline for dropping python 2.7 > support. (I haven't personally moved to 3, partly because it has seemed > not 100% baked, and partly I just haven't. With this release, it seems > python 3 is perhaps the standard approach, and certainly not > experimental. > > Greg > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAPq0zEB3wm%3DmbxP80yf6HCfN-2GBFFZPN9%3Dj80jRLyrARRL6tg%40mail.gmail.com.
