Re:Go 1.17 is deprecating the traditional use of 'go get'
by masklinn on Saturday June 26, 2021 @02:47AM
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> E: py3 was released in Dec 2008. So I guess those first two years might have been tough.
3.2 was released early 2011, and P2 compatibility features were reintroduced as late as 3.5 (% on bytes) in 2015, though for my money the last key one was the reintroduction of the `u` prefix in Python 3.3, in 2012. That's the point at which the migration really became feasible without suffering.
Furthermore that's assuming all dependencies were ported, which was not the case: waiting until porting was feasible (and they had the time and manpower to) was also something they had to wait on e.g. Django first added Python 3 support in 2013 (IIRC PyLint only supported 3.4 onwards), difficult to port your own software if the stuff you depend on hasn't been ported over.
3.2 was released early 2011, and P2 compatibility features were reintroduced as late as 3.5 (% on bytes) in 2015, though for my money the last key one was the reintroduction of the `u` prefix in Python 3.3, in 2012. That's the point at which the migration really became feasible without suffering.
Furthermore that's assuming all dependencies were ported, which was not the case: waiting until porting was feasible (and they had the time and manpower to) was also something they had to wait on e.g. Django first added Python 3 support in 2013 (IIRC PyLint only supported 3.4 onwards), difficult to port your own software if the stuff you depend on hasn't been ported over.