Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: On the sensibility of portable scripts Date: 27 Apr 2026 18:06:56 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <10s453n$5uph$1@dont-email.me> <8tjnbmxas1.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10sb89u$29ko5$4@dont-email.me> <34cqbmxlrh.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10se0t7$39rl2$2@dont-email.me> <10se5hv$39rl2$3@dont-email.me> <10smv4t$257nq$1@dont-email.me> <10sn5q8$26tnd$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tJP7YsxIShYOKseDENnY8wWRUhk1j3wPFiJFe4fjpx2sHQdEln Cancel-Lock: sha1:T+6oGVlbv5wUdwPXcUlAgMBiu/0= sha256:RVpnSEdG4fr//WFWaco0q0b4OK789l83iIfloyNZN/8= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85973 On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:12:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > For example, the last 2.x version of Python lost support over 6 years > ago. > For Python 3, the oldest currently-maintained version is 3.10. > And going by past schedules, that will likely fall out of support > sometime around October this year. On Fedora and Arch /usr/bin/python' is a symlink to python3. You can install python2 if you really want to. Ubuntu and its derivatives still have /usr/bin/python3. At least the Debian Trixie version for RPi has the python symlink. I haven't updated to Resolute Raccoon yet so that will be interesting. More problematic are libraries that haven't caught up with 3.14. The last time I tried pyside6 wasn't there yet but pyqt6 was. With 3.15 coming out they will fall even further behind.