python2 removal

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue Mar 14 19:17:22 GMT 2023


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.



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