Re: python 3.7 removal proposal (before upstream EOL!!)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 03:02:03AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > To try to make things easier for you, I left the python37 package there
> > (against the wishes of at least Adam).  The changes I did make are small
> > and you can locally revert them and build what you want, and fix 37
> > things.  That effort seems tiny compared to 2.7 porting that is so hard
> > that it isn't done 2+ years after 2.7 EOL.
> 
> Given that Adam actively started to remove completely harmless py37 glue
> in the tree in places that actually do matter for me, that doesn't help
> at all. The whole Python 2.7 EOL is a clusterfuck and I'm not alone in
> that assessment.

...and more are getting ripped out as this thread goes on. Sorry, but
that's a clear "fuck you, I don't care to me". Time to verify if pkgsrc
is still worth the effort then...

Joerg