Re: FYI: Python 3 migration of distributuion
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
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Francesco Ariis <[email protected]> wrote: > Il 11 luglio 2020 alle 23:22 Gary R. Schmidt ha scritto: > > Building Python 2.whatever isn't difficult, either. > > getmail out of my distro (Debian stable) means me not using getmail. That's unfortunate, but your choice/loss I suppose. > The «$software isn’t difficult to build» becomes an herculean task for > $num_app approaching $a_working_desktop; titanic if you take into > consideration time-sensitive security upgrades. That doesn't really apply to Python 2, and completely doesn't apply to getmail. getmail has zero dependencies other than Python itself, and since getmail isn't listening for external connections or anything like that, security is exceedingly unlikely to be a problem, even if you just download Python 2.7.x source, do `./configure ; make ; make install` once, and forget it forever. "getmail goes out of official support by my distro" may be a theoretical problem, or a philosophical one, but it it certainly is not a significant practical problem. Keep a Python 2 binary around, download getmail, untar it, and run it right out of the directory - that's literally all that's required. Charles -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------