[GRASS-dev] [release planning] GRASS GIS 7.8.0 with Python3 support

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 2:10 PM Maris Nartiss <maris.gis at gmail.com> wrote:
> pirmd., 2019. g. 7. janv., plkst. 12:51 — lietotājs Markus Neteler
> > On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:48 AM Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > po 7. 1. 2019 v 11:41 odesílatel Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> napsal:
> > > > - Proposal of release: 7 Jan 2019
> > > > - Creation of release branch: 24 Jan 2019
> > > > - RC1: 1 Feb 2019
> > > > - RC2: 7 Feb 2019 - if needed
> > > > - Final release: ~14 Feb 2019
> This really does not seem to be realistic.

Agreed - it was meant to be a bit provocative :-)

> > > I am afraid that more realistic release date for 7.8 version is
> > > ~May/June 2019. Python3 support is not fully done (Anna will know
> > > more). We don't have Windows builds for testing yet. It also doesn't
> > > make sense to me to release 7.6 in January and 7.8 in February.
> >
> > Personally I would have rather skipped 7.6 but of course that is not possible.
>
> I fail to see why. Is there any major distro dropping 2.7 support now?

Yes, soon, e.g.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal
.. at time scheduled for the next major release, F30.

Other distros I was not checking. Essentially it is a matter of
relatively short time since Python 2.7 will retire in... (as of now):
0Years 11Months 24Days 3Hours 34Minutes - https://pythonclock.org/

> If not, then lets better iron out all issues arising from transition to 3.

Yes, here in mundialis we start to switch. For sure it would be much
easier with a 7.8-release-branch.

Markus