The Future of Python 2 Support in This Project

[Mab879]

Even though Python 2 support officially ended many years ago this project still supports building with Python 2 due to RHEL 7 and similar era operating systems still being supported and their default Python version of 2.7.

With the project dropping RHEL 7 support soon, see #12044, I was wondering if at that time we should also drop Python 2 support. It would make maintenance easier and allow use of newer Python features. Now don't get your hopes up too much, we looking supporting back to 3.6 (due to RHEL 8 and similar), but at least it won't be 2.7.

Please leave your thoughts here.

[Mab879]

@ComplianceAsCode/oracle-maintainers
@ComplianceAsCode/suse-maintainers
@ComplianceAsCode/ubuntu-maintainers

Do you still need Python 2.7 support to build your packages?

[Xeicker]

we have the dockerfile in here: https://github.com/ComplianceAsCode/content/blob/master/Dockerfiles/test_suite-ol7

[Mab879]

@Xeicker Do you still need Python 2 support in 2025?

[Xeicker]

Raised this topic with Oracle Linux team to decide. Will come with the answer shortly.

[Xeicker]

@Mab879 It is ok for us to remove python 2 support

[Mab879]

Thanks for the follow-up, this is great news.

[marcusburghardt]

We briefly discussed again this topic on #12816 . In that case, we would like to use type hints in SSG but this causes issues with Python 2.