Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game

Posted Aug 2, 2017 14:10 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game by niner
Parent article: Fedora ponders the Python 2 end game

Oh. DTML. That sucks. I feel your pain :^(

As far as I'm concerned, Zope did look like a good idea in the early 2000s or so but quickly became a liability. Fortunately I managed to move off it soon afterward. I'm using Django today, which by now works great with Python 3.

Incidentally, there seem to be enough people in situations similar to yours that Python 2.7 support might not go away completely in 2020. It's just that the head Python guys said it won't be them providing that support. In effect, starting today you people have more than two years to pool your money and get Python 2.7 LTS organised. It's not as if the code base required loads of TLC to keep running, so this may be cheaper in the end than moving millions of lines of code to something else.

DTML

Posted Aug 2, 2017 14:21 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Way back around then, when I was working to replace the initial PHP-based LWN site, I did a prototype in Zope and DTML. Then I got distracted for a few months. When I came back to it I couldn't understand anything I'd done and had to start over from the beginning trying to figure out what all the weird wrapper layers did. I concluded that it would always be that way and started over with something else... I've never regretted that decision.