From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:46:18 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] What do we want to do with Python2? In-Reply-To: References: <20200112210849.0e300c45@windsurf> Message-ID: <20200113114618.6f2480e3@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:03:26 +0100 Titouan Christophe 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