(Feature): When wed have python3 in natron

[a51kot]

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Python2 its oficially abandoned and python staffers will not provide security updates

So im asking when Natron will move to python3

Specially when many distros are thoeing python2 to the trashcan (unsafe + abandoned)

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ANd question2

Could i run the old natron 2.4.3 openfx (io/misc/aurora/gmic) in natron 2.5

or not

[devernay]

See https://github.com/NatronGitHub/Natron/issues/828 for Python 3 support: we are only waiting for Windows to be ready.

You don't have to care about python2 being "thrown to the trashcan", because:

• Natron binaries provide their own python interpreter, we don't depend on the system's python.
• Python code running inside Natron is usually minimal (and it's your code, mainly), so there's very little risk that your system gets compromised because of Python2. In fact there are probably 1000x more bugs, including security issues, in the Natron code than in Python
• Python2 is still maintained by the community, and security fixes are applied in the version bundled with Natron (on Linux, we take our patches from fedora).

The OpenFX plugins will be 100% backward-compatible.

[devernay]

In the mean time, if you want to test it, it's already available on macOS and Linux: https://github.com/NatronGitHub/Natron/releases/tag/v2.5.0-alpha.2