python 2.7 marked as deprecated and EOL while 2.7.18 RC is available

[andrew clarke]

On 2020-04-18 09:34:39, Matthew Seaman (matthew at FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> On 18/04/2020 03:19, Robert Huff wrote:
> > 	a) according to the Makefile, is it possible to build this with
> > 		python-37?  (Or even -36?) 
> 
> If the Makefile for the port says:
> 
> USES= python:27
> 
> then the port is for python-2.7.x only.  All other python ports will
> support python-3.x (which practically speaking means python-3.7).  Note
> that ports that are python-2.7.x only are now as rare as hen's teeth as
> there has been an active program of deleting such.

Out of interest I ran "pkg del python27" on my FreeBSD machine just to
see what would break. Conspicuous was devel/mercurial:

PORTVERSION=    5.1.2
USES=           cpe python:2.7

Evidently Mercurial versions 5.2 and later support Python 3. The current
stable version is 5.3.2, so the FreeBSD port is a few versions behind for
some reason.

Evidently textproc/asciidoc also still requires Python 2.7.

Though it looks like it's possible to install both Mercurial and Asciidoc
using Python 3's "pip" instead of using FreeBSD ports.