On 15/03/2023 12:56, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2023-03-14 13:17, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 15/01/2023 12:52, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
This has come up in discussion a few times, and is now well overdue,
I think.
Python 2.7 is the last python2 version, which was sunsetted on
January 1, 2020.
[...]
3) There might also still be some other packages lurking which just
install a script with a shebang containing 'python', and assume that
python is python2. I don't know how we could identify those.
The remaining cases of packages which have a dependency on python
and/or python2 are either this (packages which contain a python script
with a python shebang line), or the other case which I hadn't
previously considered - a package which contain an executable or
shared library linked with libpython2.7.dll.
So, again I need inspect these to determine what should happen to them.
[..]
I'd like to adopt *xlsx2csv* - for an initial build see:
Jari is still the maintainer of record for that package, so I need to
give him an opportunity to reply here.
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=5607
https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/playground/commit/?id=af279166a903b526274f8b10264e206fc5010a68
https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/4419738199
The author remains the same but version numbering staggers around then
jumps to 0.5 and is now up to 0.8.1.
The manual was a POD file from Jaari run thru pod2man for 0.11 from
2010, but very outdated now, not to mention using Perl docs for Python
modules, so I'm rewriting from help2man output to be current,
comprehensive, and functional with `groff -man`.
[I use it to get data into portable form, make it threat free, and fake
spreadsheets for my accountant, if I want to use gvim instead of
Gnumeric or Libre Office calc! ;^> ]
The critical piece of data I'm missing here is which of these is true:
a) This package contains a script with a python shebang. The current
version doesn't work when python is python3, so an upgrade is needed to
continue working when python2 is removed, or
b) This package contains a script with a python shebang. The current
version will continue to work when python is python3.
