Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 20:18:43 +0000 From: Bob Eager <rde@tavi.co.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-ports@tharned.org> Subject: Re: Python 2.7 removal outline Message-ID: <20210326201843.14fdca93@raksha.tavi.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <12069577.xkLNZX5ndW@no.place.like.home> References: <20210324130347.GA29020@freefall.freebsd.org> <8552dddf3bc33e42ae124cd4ea53fb4f@bsdforge.com> <14A27037-4174-4708-9AE3-16D599076639@gushi.org> <12069577.xkLNZX5ndW@no.place.like.home>
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 14:55:15 -0500 Greg Rivers via freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Friday, 26 March 2021 14:19:20 CDT Dan Mahoney (Ports) wrote: > > More thoughts on mailman, specifically: > >=20 > > So, I just went to find an old FB post I made about mailman 2.x: > >=20 > > =3D=3D=3D > > From the "Load Bearing B****it" department: > > Pretty much the entire world is stuck using an EOL'd mailing list > > manager (mailman 2.x), which depends on an EOL'd python (2.7). This > > includes: > > * All the gnu mailing lists > > * All of the linux mailing lists at listman.redhat > > * all the FreeBSD mailing lists > > * all the sourceforge mailing lists > > * all the IETF mailing lists > > * all of lists.isc.org > > * NANOG > > =3D=3D=3D > >=20 > > That?s an AWFUL LOT of sysadmins, network admins, and coders who > > looked long and hard at Mailman 3 and decided ?that?s not ready > > yet?. > >=20 > > I think, if *nothing else*, tauthon needs to be stapled in for > > mailman, even if it lives under /usr/local/mailman/bin or something > > (and bakes in the couple of dependencies). > >=20 > > I know about the archive incompatibility. There *might* be a GSOC > > project to fix it. Maybe. Other changes can happen with greater > > use, but clearly there?s a first-mover disadvantage here.=20 > I concur. The thought of losing Mailman 2.x fills me with dread. >=20 Me too. Short term, I shall have it in a non-updated jail.
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