On 22.06.2020 04:21, Allen Hewes via Cygwin wrote:
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From: Cygwin <cygwin-boun...@cygwin.com> On Behalf Of My Name via
Cygwin
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2020 2:04 PM
To: brian.ing...@systematicsw.ab.ca
Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Apparent bug in either (1) Cygwin default Package-list or (2)
Package "bzr" dependency-list
This is mostly over my head, so I'm sorry if my comment here is irrelevant,
but I'll point out in case anyone here doesn't know, Python 3 doesn't make
Python 2 obsolete. They are somewhat incompatible. Python 2 source
doesn't always run in Python 3 without extensive modification. If there's any
message you all would like me to deliver to the Bazaar (bzr) forum, I will; but
I'm not a Bazaar developer either, just a user.
Yep, I am in agreement here. I don't understand why Python 2 gets attention from Cygwin
maintainers. I have a found a few packages that are "linked" (e.g. they have
dependencies on either the Python27 or Python2/Python meta-package), which would explain
this to some degree. Usually, it's just a rebuild (e.g. a re-configure) of the
depending-ee...
I can't get rid of three Python 2.7 packages: python27, python27-pip, python27-setuptools. I
switched over to using alternatives (sometime ago) so that I can "stop" the craziness of
the meta-package "python". I don't want Python 2 as my 'python'.
The need to have two Pythons installed at the same time seems to be over.
Shouldn't this remove the need to have meta-packages?
Cygiwn isn't alone is keeping Python 2 alive.
/allen
by default "python" is "python2" so anything calling python still
requires python2, see:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
and there are a lot of packages in cygwin doing it.
Packaging requires time and currently on python we are short of it.
I am moving to package all python-subpackages for 3.8 and
after we can look to move some packages from python2 (2.7)
to python 3 (target 3.8)
Regards
MArco
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