Re: python2 removal

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>]

On 2023-03-14 13:17, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 15/01/2023 12:52, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>
>> This has come up in discussion a few times, and is now well overdue, I think.
>>
>> Python 2.7 is the last python2 version, which was sunsetted on January 1, 2020.
>>
> [...]
>>
>> 3) There might also still be some other packages lurking which just install a 
>> script with a shebang containing 'python', and assume that python is python2.  
>> I don't know how we could identify those.
> 
> The remaining cases of packages which have a dependency on python and/or python2 
> are either this (packages which contain a python script with a python shebang 
> line), or the other case which I hadn't previously considered - a package which 
> contain an executable or shared library linked with libpython2.7.dll.
> 
> So, again I need inspect these to determine what should happen to them.

Add:

$ apt-cyg category Python | grep -iv python | xargs apt-cyg listall | awk '...'
cfv			1.18.3-1			x86_64
emacs-mercurial		2.7.1-1				x86_64
git-filter-repo		2.38.0-1			noarch
idle2			2.7.18-4			x86_64
idle27			2.7.18-4			x86_64
idle35			3.5.7-2				x86_64
idle36			3.6.15-1			x86_64
idle37			3.7.12-1			x86_64
idle38			3.8.16-1			x86_64
idle39			3.9.16-1			x86_64
mercurial		6.3.2-1				noarch
mercurial-convert	2.7.1-1				x86_64
mercurial-gui		2.7.1-1				x86_64
mercurial-highlight	2.7.1-1				x86_64
mutagen-utils		1.45.1-2			noarch
offlineimap		6.5.5-1				x86_64
scons			4.4.0-1				x86_64
stgit			0.19-2				noarch
svn-load		1.3-1				x86_64
urlgrabber		3.1.0-3				x86_64
xlsx2csv		0.11+20120814+gitf54ab78-2	noarch

I'd like to adopt *xlsx2csv* - for an initial build see:

https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=5607
https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/playground/commit/?id=af279166a903b526274f8b10264e206fc5010a68
https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/4419738199

The author remains the same but version numbering staggers around then jumps to 
0.5 and is now up to 0.8.1.
The manual was a POD file from Jaari run thru pod2man for 0.11 from 2010, but 
very outdated now, not to mention using Perl docs for Python modules, so I'm 
rewriting from help2man output to be current, comprehensive, and functional with 
`groff -man`.

[I use it to get data into portable form, make it threat free, and fake 
spreadsheets for my accountant, if I want to use gvim instead of Gnumeric or 
Libre Office calc! ;^> ]

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry