[oi-dev] Plan for openssl update

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, Chris wrote:
>> 
>> However do you see any package that we could happily deprecate in the
>> process? ;)
> I'm not sure what IO's policy is. But, given python2x went EOL upstream.
> You could eliminate python/python27 from the list. Which, given all the
> packages that _depend_ on it, would make the list even smaller. ;-)

Regardless of Python 2x going EOL upstream, there is a remarkable 
amount of Python 2 code continuing to be used in the world.

People did not necessarily rush to convert their software so that it 
would work with Python 3 even if they had heard repeated mentions that 
they should do so.

In somecases the port forward to Python 3 is easy and in other cases 
it is a nightmare.

The '2to3' helper tool only goes so far.  Problems often remain and 
can only be discovered by exercising every code path.

OpenIndiana should not be the first to remove Python 2x entirely.

Bob
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