The Nikola project is deprecating Python 2.7 (+2.x/3.x user survey results)

[Chris Warrick]

On 2 October 2015 at 01:59, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 10/1/2015 12:26 PM, Chris Warrick wrote:
>>
>> The Nikola developers decided to deprecate Python 2.7 support.
>> Starting with v7.7.2, Nikola will display a warning if Python 2.7 is
>> used (but it will still be fully supported). In early 2016, Nikola
>> v8.0.0 will come out, and that release will not support Python 2.7
>> officially.
>
>
> How sane ;-)
>
>> The decision was made on the basis of a user survey, with 138
>> participants. The vast majority of them claimed that they either use
>> Python 3 already, or can switch really easily.
>
>
> From the survey and description below, 'using Python 3' means having Python
> 3 installed, not writing Python 3 code.  Correct?

Correct. We asked about Nikola users, who don’t really have to write
any Python code.  This is, however, an useful information for OSS
developers, who want to know if they can/should target Python 3
instead of Python 2.

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