> it still is in the time period before
> EOL that other recent versions have gone to security only.
Again, not relevant.
You might want to read http://python3statement.org/.
I’m guessing my first message was unclear or able to be misunderstood in some part — I’m one of the frequent contributors to
python3statement.org and have moved my own Python projects to Py3 only (the main one, music21, gets its 3.4+-only release this Saturday). I have NO desire to prolong the 2.7 pain.
What I am referring to is the number of “needs backport to 2.7” tags for non-security-related bug-fixes in the issue tracker. (
https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22needs+backport+to+2.7%22)
My question was between now and 1 Jan 2020 should we still be fixing things in 2.7 that we’re not fixing in 3.5, or leave 2.7 in a security-only mode for the next 21 months? Looking at what has been closed recently, without getting a bpo for actually backporting,
it appears that we’re sort of doing this in practice anyhow.
Thanks! and even if my message was read differently than I intended, glad that it had a good effect.