Re: [PATCH 4/4] Update README to state Python3 requirement

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 8:46 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 16.03.2023 18:16, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> Python2 is not supported anymore.

There are two things here which concern me: For one, how come this is
at the end of a series? You want to keep in mind that any series may
be committed piecemeal (unless an indication to the contrary is in
the cover letter, but there's none here in the first place).

The other aspect is that there's no indication here of it being
consensus that we raise the baseline requirement for Python, and for
Python alone. A decision towards the wider topic of raising baseline
requirements is, as you may recall from the meeting in Cambridge,
still pending.

To me, the idea behind that discussion was that if we agree on a policy -- or at least general principles -- then we can avoid having to have discussions on a case-by-case basis.  The fact that the discussion is still open isn't a reason not to deprecate features; it just means that we still need to discuss each one on its merits.

Given that Python 2 was announced unsupported years ago now, it seems obvious to me that we should stop trying to support it.

Are you arguing that we *should* continue to support Python2?  Do you think anyone will?

If so, please either make that case, or recommend that we raise the profile of this so that others can.

 -George