Re: [PATCH 0/6] Transition git-p4.py to support Python 3 only

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Dec 09 2021, Joel Holdsworth wrote:

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Python 2 was discontinued in 2020, and there is no longer any officially
supported interpreter. Further development of git-p4.py will require
would-be developers to test their changes with all supported dialects of
the language. However, if there is no longer any supported runtime
environment available, this places an unreasonable burden on the Git
project to maintain support for an obselete dialect of the language.

Does it? I can still install Python 2.7 on Debian, presumably other OS's
have similar ways to easily test it.

Yes, that is a good point to make against "we cannot maintain the
half meant to cater to Python2 of the script".  Developers should be
able to keep and test Python2 support, if it is necessary.

So the more important question is if there are end-users that have
no choice but sticking to Python2.  Is there distributions and
systems that do not offer Python3, on which end-users have happily
been using Python2?  If some users with vendor supported Python2 do
not have access to Python3, cutting them off may be premature.

As the general direction, I do not mind deprecating support for
Python2, and then eventually removing it.  I just do not know if 2
years is long enough for the latter (IIRC, the sunset happened at
the beginning of 2020, and we are about to end 2021).

Thanks.