[oi-dev] The end of python-27

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 09:02:36AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> 
> Since gnome-doc-utils is not used with GNOME 3 or later, upstream has
> ended development and archived the project:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gnome-doc-utils
> so no amount of waiting will ever get it ported to Python 3 by them.

Thanks for the information.  Product developers may provide an
alternative.  It may have to be selected at build time.  Python-2
might still disappear.

> Does mate still need these tools or have they moved on to something else?

There aren't very many products.  Some of them are gnome-2
applications that OI runs under Mate.  Mate itself may not need the
tools, but I really don't know.


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