From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] What do we want to do with Python2?
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:46:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200113114618.6f2480e3@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0badb1d-2bf7-fb3b-6564-65f1f8c6a4b0@railnova.eu>
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:03:26 +0100
Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe@railnova.eu> wrote:
> I did not had so much time to continue on the Py2 deprecation track
> since the ELCE developer meeting, but I intend to continue at the next
> one (FOSDEM).
>
> In my opinion, we should strive for a Python3 only Buildroot for the
> 2021.02 release, and use the year 2020 to either remove Py2-only
> packages, or wait for an upstream update. I would like to prioritize the
> packages that use Python at compile time, because that would allow us to
> get rid of host-python2 first (maybe even for the 2020.05 ?).
Unfortunately, you can't get rid of host-python2 if you still have
python2 available as a target package, because building the target
Python interpreter requires having the matching host Python interpreter
available.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-12 19:15 [Buildroot] What do we want to do with Python2? Asaf Kahlon
2020-01-12 20:08 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2020-01-13 10:03 ` Titouan Christophe
2020-01-13 10:46 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
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