Dec-05-2019, 10:42 AM
@Gribouillis
Please try to understand a little better the plea for Python 2.7 LTS.
We are a small company. There are a lot of small companies that rely on Python 2.7. They represent a big market. Migration to Python 2.7 is giving them headaches. Time and energy that need to be spend in sales and services have to be put in core development. How lame is that? That is how EOL of Python 2.7 kills the business for Python in general.
We invested in the best setup we could build. We had no other choice than Python 2.7 because the products we need from upstream are only available in Python 2.7. Till today. They will not be updated by upstream. Never.
Python 3 is 11 years old. Still it is only mainstream among big tech. There is no technical and there is no economical reason to EOL Python 2.7. We now have to redo everything again before the return on the investments in Python 2.7.
The Python Community is using MyBB as forum so maybe that is a sign to switch to PHP and MySQL.
How big is the effort to maintain Python 2.7 by the Python Community? There is no heavy development needed for it. That is done now on Python 2.7. Developers can have there share developing Python 3. But please do not take Python 2.7 from us. We want our python 2.7 from our distro’s so that we are save and secure with good old Python 2.7 on the server. Now we also have to change distro to have Python 2.7 for a couple more years. EOL of Python 2.7 is a form of unfair competition.
Please, try to understand the importance of the economically and otherwise very clumsy decision to EOL Python 2.7. And undo the EOL of Python 2.7. Please.
Please try to understand a little better the plea for Python 2.7 LTS.
We are a small company. There are a lot of small companies that rely on Python 2.7. They represent a big market. Migration to Python 2.7 is giving them headaches. Time and energy that need to be spend in sales and services have to be put in core development. How lame is that? That is how EOL of Python 2.7 kills the business for Python in general.
We invested in the best setup we could build. We had no other choice than Python 2.7 because the products we need from upstream are only available in Python 2.7. Till today. They will not be updated by upstream. Never.
Python 3 is 11 years old. Still it is only mainstream among big tech. There is no technical and there is no economical reason to EOL Python 2.7. We now have to redo everything again before the return on the investments in Python 2.7.
The Python Community is using MyBB as forum so maybe that is a sign to switch to PHP and MySQL.
How big is the effort to maintain Python 2.7 by the Python Community? There is no heavy development needed for it. That is done now on Python 2.7. Developers can have there share developing Python 3. But please do not take Python 2.7 from us. We want our python 2.7 from our distro’s so that we are save and secure with good old Python 2.7 on the server. Now we also have to change distro to have Python 2.7 for a couple more years. EOL of Python 2.7 is a form of unfair competition.
Please, try to understand the importance of the economically and otherwise very clumsy decision to EOL Python 2.7. And undo the EOL of Python 2.7. Please.