Chromium (& derivatives) and Python 2.7
Christoph Moench-Tegeder
cmt at burggraben.net
Mon Jul 27 20:38:23 UTC 2020
## Adriaan de Groot (adridg at freebsd.org):
> The Chromium build system -- and as a consequence, also QtWebEngine -- still
> uses Python 2.7. This is going to be a real problem about six months down the
> line, and I have no idea how upstream is going to deal with it. I've heard
> there are patches buried deep within the chocolate factory, but not from
> reliable sources.
They have https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=942720
but some of the blockers on that aren't really public.
Given the number of commits and blockers on that, I'd guess this is
not a quick weekend project...
That's all I got (sorry if you already, *ahem* googled that),
Christoph
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