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

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

Am Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 06:40:21PM -0400 schrieb Greg Troxel:
> 
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> writes:
> 
> > Am Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 08:11:13AM -0400 schrieb Greg Troxel:
> >>   Does anyone actually use python37 from pkgsrc (who is running
> >>   pkgsrc-current, or who is running 2022Q3 and who regularly updates to
> >>   new quarterly releases)*?  Please speak up and explain why.  (Or send
> >>   me text to post anonymously if you don't want to admit it public.)
> >
> > Yes, I do. It is one of the upgrade paths for complex Python 2.7
> > programs...
> 
> You mean that you port things from 2.7 to 3.7, and then from 3.7 to
> 3.11?
> 
> To do that, do you need
> 
>   python3.7 in wip
> 
>   python3.7 in pkgsrc, but no python-depending packages for 37
> 
>   python3.7 in pkgsrc, with 37 packages not built unless added?
> 
>   also some python-depending packages
> 
> or really: if we removed it anyway, how much extra work would that
> impose on you?  (to be compared to the work on the part of others to
> deal with the breakage we have now)

Yes, I would have to fork a lot of packages further increasing the pain.
So far I haven't seen that many cases of difficult to fix breakage...

Joerg