Re: Has/is anybody testing roundup 2.0.0alpha0?

Hi Joseph:

In message <[email protected]>,
Joseph Myers writes:
>On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> [...]
>> I think that we still have some time before distributions will phase out
>> python2, at least debian has just released buster some weeks ago which
>> still has python2.
>
>I expect users will run into dependencies dropping Python 2 support, when 
>they install such dependencies themselves rather than from distribution 
>packages, and we'll have similar issues with CI needing to force older 
>versions of dependencies to test with Python 2.

While that's true, we already have mysqlclient version kept back for
python 3.4, sphinx (for xapian) is pinned to last major version for
all releases and we have hard coded versions for libpg_error,
libassuan, gpgme.

Dropping support for python2 will be additional maintenance but
nothing we haven't had to contend with for mysql, postgresql etc.

Adding a warning to upgrading.txt for python2 users may be worthwhile.
State that there may be problems using newest dependencies. So admins
need to verify that dependencies installed from source still support
python 2. Thoughts?

Have a great day.

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