[oi-dev] Removal of python 3.5 from OI

[Richard Lowe]

Note that I'm not done migrating pkg yet, there are several more steps to
doing it cleanly.

-- Rich

On Sun, May 8, 2022, 14:49 Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> I've attached a file of affected directories to this message.  It's a
> list of directories with a Makefile that contain "runtime/python-35".
> Note that it's not a list of packages.  All that it implies is that
> the directory contains at least one package that requires python 3.5 .
>
> Some Makefiles iterate over python versions to create "-35" packages,
> along with other packages.  In that case, it's usually only necessary
> to obsolete the "-35" package and to remove all references to python
> 3.5 .  Other Makefiles specify only a single python version.  If that
> is so, the software can usually be upgraded to python 3.7 or 3.9 .
>
> The trick is to obsolete packages in such a way as to avoid affecting
> users.  Packages using python 3.5 that are not required by other
> packages can be obsoleted at any time.  In the case of python 3.5
> scripts, the easiest thing is to upgrade first, to a newer python
> version, and work down the dependency tree from there.
>
> Note that there has been no official announcement of the removal of
> python 3.5 from OI yet.  However, python 2.7 has already mostly been
> eliminated from OI.
>
>
> --
> -Gary Mills-            -refurb-                -Winnipeg, Manitoba,
> Canada-
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