Hi Forum,
With the upcoming EOL of Python 2.7 we realized that for years to come we can not do and we do not want to do without Python 2.7.
Information about how FreeBSD is dealing with the EOL Python 2.7 is hard to find. Does someone know more about the future plans for Python 2.7 on FreeBSD? Please share. Python 2.6 is also still in the ports collection.
There is Tauthon as fork of Python 2.7, but it is not in the ports collection yet. Tauthon would be able to run most Python 3.x code in addition to running all the 2.7 code. So almost no need for Python 3.0.
Tauthon can reduce the pressure on core-development when it is in the ports collection and made compatible with PIP.
Tauthon is on the list wanted ports. According to the list wanted ports Tauthon should be as easy to port as simply cloning lang/python27 into lang/tauthon; it will according to the list need additional integration with PYTHON2_DEFAULT to remove requirement that "python" be in the name.
How to support Tauthon becoming a port in the FreeBSD Ports Collection so long-term support for this fork of the Python 2 programming language, with backported features from 3.x , is guaranteed on our preferred BSD? There are some linux-distro’s that are preparing for Tauthon but we want to stick with FreeBSD. We do not want to migrate to Linux to be able to run Python 2.7 software for ever.
Thank you,
J.
With the upcoming EOL of Python 2.7 we realized that for years to come we can not do and we do not want to do without Python 2.7.
Information about how FreeBSD is dealing with the EOL Python 2.7 is hard to find. Does someone know more about the future plans for Python 2.7 on FreeBSD? Please share. Python 2.6 is also still in the ports collection.
There is Tauthon as fork of Python 2.7, but it is not in the ports collection yet. Tauthon would be able to run most Python 3.x code in addition to running all the 2.7 code. So almost no need for Python 3.0.
Tauthon can reduce the pressure on core-development when it is in the ports collection and made compatible with PIP.
Tauthon is on the list wanted ports. According to the list wanted ports Tauthon should be as easy to port as simply cloning lang/python27 into lang/tauthon; it will according to the list need additional integration with PYTHON2_DEFAULT to remove requirement that "python" be in the name.
How to support Tauthon becoming a port in the FreeBSD Ports Collection so long-term support for this fork of the Python 2 programming language, with backported features from 3.x , is guaranteed on our preferred BSD? There are some linux-distro’s that are preparing for Tauthon but we want to stick with FreeBSD. We do not want to migrate to Linux to be able to run Python 2.7 software for ever.
Thank you,
J.