Chromium (& derivatives) and Python 2.7

[Lars Liedtke]

At least in Ubuntu the mongodb 3.6 package does not depend on python2.

> Package: mongodb-server-core
> Version: 1:3.6.9+really3.6.8+90~g8e540c0b6d-0ubuntu5
> Priority: optional
> Section: universe/database
> Source: mongodb
> Origin: Ubuntu
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Original-Maintainer: Debian MongoDB Maintainers
<pkg-mongodb-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
> Installed-Size: 77,8 MB
> Depends: libboost-filesystem1.71.0, libboost-program-options1.71.0,
libc6 (>= 2.29), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libgoogle-perftools4, libpcrecpp0v5
(>= 7.7), libsnappy1v5 (>= 1.1.8), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libstdc++6 (>=
9), libstemmer0d (>= 0+svn527), libyaml-cpp0.6 (>= 0.6.2), zlib1g (>=
1:1.2.0)
> Breaks: mongodb-server (<< 1:3.4.14-3ubuntu1)
> Replaces: mongodb-server (<< 1:3.4.14-3ubuntu1)
> Homepage: https://www.mongodb.org
> Download-Size: 21,6 MB
> APT-Sources: http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64
Packages
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I don't know about build dependencies

Am 28.07.20 um 11:36 schrieb Ronald Klop:
> The same problem is going to happen with mongodb36 I presume. It uses
> python2 to build, but does not need it to run.
> Would it be possible to remove python2 as a RUN_DEPENDS at the end of
> 2020, but keep it as a BUILD_DEPENDS in the ports framework?
>
> This might save some usefull ports.
>
> How are other projects (like Debian, etc.) solving this?
>
> Regards,
> Ronald.
>
>
> Van: Adriaan de Groot <adridg at freebsd.org>
> Datum: maandag, 27 juli 2020 21:36
> Aan: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
> Onderwerp: Chromium (& derivatives) and Python 2.7
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> QtWebEngine is an even specialer case, since it's an LTS and also the
>> last LTS
>> in the Qt5 series, and I have real doubts about upstream -- The Qt
>> Company --
>> being able or willing to deal with Python 2.7 deprecation there.
>>
>> Has anyone in FreeBSD tried to port the stuff over? I got about an
>> hour or two
>> into the porting process (making configure accept Python 3 is easy, but
>> there's all these wretched code-generating scripts) and hit a brick
>> wall of
>> templating engines doing sensible Python 2.7 things.
>>
>> [ade]
>>
>>
>>
>>  
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