<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 8 May 2020, at 9:12, Chris Johns <<a href="mailto:chrisj@rtems.org" class="">chrisj@rtems.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 8/5/20 3:50 pm, Anders Montonen wrote:<br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">On a not completely unrelated note, have there been any thoughts about setting a timetable for deprecating Python 2 support now that it is EOL, eg. in RTEMS6? Are there any specific host platforms you want to support that don’t have Python 3?<br class=""></blockquote><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">We cannot just yet because we have users who run long life operating systems and cannot move. This is one of the roles RTEMS provides. We maintain tools and the OS longer than others and on older target hardware. Large orgs cannot retool just because it exists.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div>Right, which is why you set a timetable to give sufficient advance warning, and coincide it with a major release. Though I would have assumed that these kinds of users don’t really switch to newer releases anyway.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Anders</div></body></html>