> [Software that was officially EOL and no longer supported by the developer as of January 1, 2020 — even though they went back on that with an emergency patch in April] was removed in [an OS released on October 25, 2021], which was incredibly stupid and disruptive as it caught everyone by surprise [despite the fact that the intent to EOL that software was declared many years ahead of time, and that sunset date already represented an extension of multiple years to the usual release schedule].
I will never understand this.
But then, I've been using Python 3 since 3.2 and my first reaction to that was a sigh of relief, and by the time I updated to 3.4 I was already wondering why everyone else was lagging behind on the switch.
Perhaps because your interpretation of my comment is wrong.
> was removed in [an OS released on October 25, 2021]
No, no it was not! That would have been fine. Heck, it would even have been fine if they had removed it the year before. Two years. Three. I don’t care. The problem is that it was removed on a point release (not October) without warning, after setting the precedent of removing another language on a major release.
> But then, I've been using Python 3 since 3.2 and my first reaction to that was a sigh of relief
And I don’t even care about Python. But I still had to deal with the fallout from that from things I didn’t write.
> The problem is that it was removed on a point release (not October) without warning, after setting the precedent of removing another language on a major release.
My perspective is that the problem is that people were trying to use Python 2 after January 1, 2020. I left it behind years before that.
I will never understand this.
But then, I've been using Python 3 since 3.2 and my first reaction to that was a sigh of relief, and by the time I updated to 3.4 I was already wondering why everyone else was lagging behind on the switch.