From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 19:54:04 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Python 2.7 end of life on January 1, 2020 Message-ID: <20190301195404.1c00356b@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, Through a LWN.net article, I recently realized that Python 2.7 will see its end of life on January 1, 2020, according to: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ You also have a fancy countdown at: https://pythonclock.org/ This means that our 2020.02 LTS release probably should not have Python 2.x anymore ? If that's our decision, then we should probably discuss the deprecation path we want to follow to strongly warn users that they should migrate away from Python 2.x. What do people think about this ? Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com