Re:Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL ...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @12:48PM
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> Ruby and node did it in a few months and told the community to move or die.
Uh, Ruby’s big compatibility breaking upgrade (1.8 -> 1.9) took more than a few months, it took years for the community to fully move. (Because of Ruby’s pre-2.0 versioning practice, 1.8.x -> 1.9.x was a major version upgrade, and it was actually a more significant one than the 1.9 -> 2.0 update. But lots of people stayed on 1.8 throughout most of the 1.9 period and the transition didn't really complete until late in that period or early in the 2.x period, and 1.8.7 was getting maintenance releases for four years after 1.9.1 stable release.)
Uh, Ruby’s big compatibility breaking upgrade (1.8 -> 1.9) took more than a few months, it took years for the community to fully move. (Because of Ruby’s pre-2.0 versioning practice, 1.8.x -> 1.9.x was a major version upgrade, and it was actually a more significant one than the 1.9 -> 2.0 update. But lots of people stayed on 1.8 throughout most of the 1.9 period and the transition didn't really complete until late in that period or early in the 2.x period, and 1.8.7 was getting maintenance releases for four years after 1.9.1 stable release.)