Re: python 2.x

[Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 2019-04-09 12:56, Dr. Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Am Tue, 9 Apr 2019 15:43:24 +0000
> schrieb <coypu%sdf.org@localhost>:
>
> > python2 will become EOL upstream in a few months. Let's get a 3.x
> > version as the default.
> I asked my HPC users and only the astrophysicists mentioned code that
> needs 2.7 (we're not discussing removing the package, I presume),
> others were happy with 3.6. There was some caution about 3.7 and hope
> that ABI issues with that are resolved soon. We do not bother with 3.4
> or 3.5.
>
>
> Alrighty then,
>
> Thomas
Our HPC users run almost exclusively 3.6 now.  Packages that only run 
under 2.x have become very rare.  We have not tested 3.7 much yet.

Cheers,

    JB