Arch Linux drops Python 2

Posted Sep 24, 2022 18:34 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Arch Linux drops Python 2 by Vipketsh
Parent article: Arch Linux drops Python 2

> One could argue that "just use the same environment as back then", and engineers generally would prefer that, but that is often not possible because the commercial EDA tool vendors need lots of convincing to hand out licenses to tools that old so one is often forced to new tools and environments. EDA vendors typically realise the problem and tend to have quite good backwards compatibility in their tools, but that doesn't solve the script issue.

That assumes the vendor CAN hand out a licence ...

I've just seen on one of my mailing lists, a request for UniData 5 point something install media. I don't know how old that is, but the current vendor (Rocket) doesn't have a copy. They've taken over most of the Pick vendors, and in the process a lot of history has probably been lost. Trying to get hold of commercial products from that long ago is probably very difficult simply to find an extant copy!

Cheers,
Wol