Comment by shmerl
Language fork is unfortunate. Python situation isn't much of a fork really. Python 2 is basically EOL.
Language fork is unfortunate. Python situation isn't much of a fork really. Python 2 is basically EOL.
It might not be supported by the consortium, but python2 still lives, slowly, in one place or another:
> The RHEL 8 AppStream Lifecycle Page puts the end date of RHEL 8's Python 2.7 package at June 2024.
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511
At this point in RHEL it is only "deprecated", not "obsolete".
There’s no “basically”. Stick a fork in it; it’s done: https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/