Re: Ten patches for xgps

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo James!

On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:59:11 -0700
James Browning <jamesb192@jamesb192.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, July 18, 2024 1:16:12 PM PDT Fred Wright wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> >   
> > > Please make these individual Merge Requests.  
> 
> I can totally see opening up a bunch of merge requests as a 
> justification to permanently scrap everything I am working on.
> Probably on a premise like "Who can keep track of all of this?"

But not opening up MRs absolutely leads to: "Who can track all this".

> The seventh patch caused the score to drop by 0.23 from the previous 
> slightly positive climb. Therefore the obvious thing to do is to drop 
> support for the affected Python 2; this is only four and a half years 
> after Python 2.7 went end-of-life. Whose cold undead hands are still 
> grasping it?

A few distros still pagtch, and ship Python 2.7.  I even have a customer
still on 2.7.  So, to answer your question, not quite yet.

RGDS
GARY
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