Re: getmail, getmail6, testing, unstable, python-is-python3

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Reco wrote:
...
> Because python. Be it python 2 or python 3 - it's (in)famous for one
> thing - lack of backwards compatibility. Sooner or later they replace
> python 3.8 (current sid) with, say, python 3.9 - and the things will
> break again.
> Because they did on 3.7->3.8 transition, did before that on 3.6->3.7
> transition and this list goes long way back.

  i've not had any problems with python3 here, but i 
don't do strange things with python3.  oh, let me
rephrase that, during a recent round i had a problem
with a program, but that wasn't anything i did so it
was somewhere in the stack of modules that program 
used.  does that mean it was incompatible?  no, it 
just meant there was a bug introduced which eventually 
got fixed.


  songbird