On 01/02/20 at 11:18am, Santiago Torres-Arias via arch-dev-public wrote:
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 05:12:33PM +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
For packages still providing python2 functionality such as vim and others I propose we remove python2 support to actively to discourage people using it.
I was +1 on this
# Remove python2 support
* pycharm-community-edition - remove python2 support * vim - remove python2 support
Until I saw this.
I imagine editors and such may/could be an exception?
So following up from what grazollini and Eli have said, I guess we can keep it for vim, maybe focus more on optdepends and actual makedepends for I've found a lot of gnome packages having a python2 makedepends which can be removed or moved to python 3. Felix brought up a more radical approach of removing check() for python2 modules which would allow a lot of python2 modules to be removed. This is also blocking him from updating packages since he needs to bring new python2 modules in to update some python/python2 modules iirc. Felix, can you enlighten us? I don't want you to be blocked from keeping Arch rolling =) Greetings, Jelle van der Waa