Re: Python 3, was Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 2.19.0

[David Kastrup]

Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 02:56:47PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> 
>> Upgrading to a newer version of GCC stopped our release process from
>> working for several months.  That's exactly the kind of "it should not
>> be a big deal" that you are talking about here.
>> 
>
> That's why the upgrades should be planned in advance before there's
> few time left.
>
> Python 2 will reach end of life in 2020 (no bugfix releases from that date).
> I guess that in 4 years Linux distros will "have to" (?) migrate to python3.
> We might find ourselves in a similar position as for guile1.8/guile2

Guile 1.8 is already the other way round: most distributions only still
support it because of LilyPond.  That's actually a quite more urgent
deal.

-- 
David Kastrup