Re: url2pkg only for Python 3

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Adam <adam%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

>>>>>  We have not had a discussion about trying to proactively get rid of
>>>>>  things that support 2.7.   We have not discussed the concept of
>>>>>  marking things not-for-27 when they actually work fine.
>>>> 
>>>> Actually, this is already happening. E.g. "Switch to wheel" commits are
>>>> exactly that.
>>> 
>>> That doesn't make it ok.    I had no idea switch to wheel was dropping
>>> 27.
>> 
>> I should be clear that I am not objecting to us deciding that we are
>> going to purge 27 under some circumstances.   It's just not ok for
>> people to start bulk changes without laying them out on tech-pkg.
>
> That's an old story. Python 2.7 is dead for over 4 years.

Not true in any relevant sense.  It has been formally EOL, but people
still depend on it.

Also not relevant to our norms requiring discussion for large-scale
changes, especially removals.

But, Thomas has written to pkgsrc-users, which is what we need.