From gtk-devel Fri Jun 01 20:51:44 2018 From: Emmanuele Bassi Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2018 20:51:44 +0000 To: gtk-devel Subject: Re: Proposal: Recommend meson for glib 2.58.0 Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=gtk-devel&m=152788633211692 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============7968073151426288498==" --===============7968073151426288498== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000015a84d056d9ac145" --00000000000015a84d056d9ac145 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" With Python 2.x getting EOL in less than 2 years, I suspect that commercial distros will need to provide Python 3 pretty quickly. Ciao, Emmanuele. On Fri, 1 Jun 2018 at 21:10, Christian Hergert wrote: > On 06/01/2018 08:10 AM, xclaesse@gmail.com wrote: > > Disclaimer: I'm not a GLib maintainer so this email is only about > > opening the discussion. There is no decision made yet. > > > > Opinions? > > I think the risk area is python3 support on some commercially supported > distributions. Although, that is probably in better shape now than it > was a year ago. > > Also not a maintainer, but +1 for the switch. > > -- Christian > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] --00000000000015a84d056d9ac145 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
With Python 2.x getting EOL in less than 2 years, I = suspect that commercial distros will need to provide Python 3 pretty quickl= y.

Ciao,
=C2=A0Emmanuele.

On Fri,= 1 Jun 2018 at 21:10, Christian Hergert <christian@hergert.me> wrote:
On 06/01/2018 08:10 AM, xclaesse@gmail.com wrote:
> Disclaimer: I'm not a GLib maintainer so this email is only about<= br> > opening the discussion. There is no decision made yet.
>
> Opinions?

I think the risk area is python3 support on some commercially supported
distributions. Although, that is probably in better shape now than it
was a year ago.

Also not a maintainer, but +1 for the switch.

-- Christian
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