meta-python2 at git.openembedded.org

[Mark Hatle]

On 6/10/19 11:55 AM, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> On 6/10/19 12:46 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:
>> On 6/9/19 5:23 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> On Monday, 10 June 2019 9:54:33 AM NZST Richard Purdie wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2019-06-09 at 10:30 -0700, Michael Halstead wrote:
>>>>> May I create a meta-python2 repository at git.openembedded.org to be
>>>>> maintained by Tim Orling?
>>>>
>>>> Its been a while since the TSC met or made a decision!
>>>>
>>>> I'd say yes from my perspective.
>>>
>>> OK by me also. Time we put the python 2 stuff out to pasture.
>>
>> I've no objection.
> 
> What do you expect the lifetime of the layer to be and
> would you include that in the layer's README?
> 
> If it's about a year and meant as a temporary transition,
> that seems reasonable but otherwise, it's similar to meta-gplv2
> which has working code but code whose security status is suspect.
> 
> Of course there is a lot of python2 code around so I suspect that
> the Jan 1, 2020 EOL for python2 might slip but hopefully by months
> not by years.

I think OE is appropriate for this.  EOL may be Jan 2020, but I do expect it's
still going to be needed well after 2020.  So we're looking at at least 2-3
years worth of need from people.

--Mark

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> ../Randy
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>>
>> --Mark
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Paul
>>>
>>
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