Re: the state of python 2.7

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 12:21:43PM +0000, nia wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 05:51:41PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > A third question is the nature of any support for 2.7.  It has been a
> > really long time since 2.7 is EOL; the last code change included in a
> > release had a cutoff date of January 1, 2020.  It has been unmaintained
> > for 3 years
> 
> For context NetBSD 9.0 is about as old and it's one of the tier-1
> platforms we're providing bulk builds for. Or well, is supposed to be -
> I haven't had time to monitor reports in a while.

belatedly, and not entirely on-topic, while I'm not a user of Python
2.7 myself, I expect to be using OpenJDK 8 until the end of time.
Not as much of a problem for pkgsrc as there aren't thousands
of dependent packages, but still highly likely to code rot.

As a teenager, I wrote thousands of lines of code for Java versions
prior to 8. Many of these depend on APIs that no longer exist. Many
of them are tied to old bytecode formats and will simply never work
with newer versions. Preserving this code is very important to me
on a level beyond technical aspects.