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jeffkowalski / geeknote

Console client for Evernote.
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Python 2 end-of-life in 2020 #126

Open vitaly-zdanevich opened 5 years ago

vitaly-zdanevich commented 5 years ago

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3365221/python-2-end-of-life-how-to-survive-the-end-of-python-2.html

vitaly-zdanevich commented 4 years ago

Still not published for Gentoo, but today through the eselect news read I got this broadcast message:

2020-02-07-python-2-7-eol Title Python 2.7 went EOL Author Michał Górny mgorny@gentoo.org Posted 2020-02-07 Revision 1

Python 2.7 has reached its end-of-life by 2019-12-31. Python package upstreams have started removing Python 2 compatibility code from their packages more aggressively. This includes common dependencies such as dev-python/pytest, dev-python/setuptools and dev-python/sphinx. While we realize that many packages are still dependent on Python 2, providing full support for it exceeds our maintenance capabilities.

Upstream is planning to make one more release of dev-lang/python:2.7 in April 2020. We are going to continue maintaining and patching the interpreter for as long as it is feasible, most likely even after all Python 2 packages are gone from Gentoo.

At the same time, we are actively working towards switching the distribution to Python 3. Whenever possible, we are removing Python 2 support from packages. It will remain available for the packages missing Python 3 compatibility and their dependencies for some more time. However, packages that have little chances of being ported will eventually be removed.

If you are still using Python 2 for your projects, we strongly recommend you to migrate away. For the time being, it is preferable to use dev-python/virtualenv or a similar solution rather than ebuilds, to install the dependencies for your projects locally.

Regular Gentoo systems will be migrated off Python 2 gracefully. It may be necessary to use --changed-deps or a similar option during system upgrades whenever they become blocked by Python 2 packages installed earlier.

If you wish to remove Python 2.7 entirely sooner, you can try removing python2_7 from PYTHON_TARGETS. However, this will require adding explicit package.use entries if some of the installed packages still require Python 2.

Note that package.use entries are not necessary for packages that support one implementation only (i.e. do not support Python 3 at all).

I am afraid that this is not possible to have Geeknote in Portage (Gentoo repository) for end-of-lifed Python 2. @jeffkowalski, is it possible to migrate to Python 3? This is not only about Gentoo.

kurokirasama commented 4 years ago

so we can't install it on 20.04?