Re: python 2 EOL

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 25, 2022, 07:11 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1qprecfq.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <221124.865yf4plw1.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

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>> So I agree that the best idea in this patch series is the stop-gap
>> solution to install `python2` on `ubuntu-22.04`, and deal with deprecating
>> Python v2.x support separately, later, or never, whichever comes first ;-)
>
> Yes, let's address that later. We had a recent discussion relating to
> EOL-ing it in-tree. See the ML discussion around[2].
> ...
> 2. f7b5ff607fa (git-p4: improve encoding handling to support
>    inconsistent encodings, 2022-04-30)

I agree with two of you that a good first step is the posted patch.

I do not seem to find any message in the thread that led to the commit about dropping Python 2 support, though.

Thanks.

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