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[Anton Gladky <gladky.anton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Yade developers,

Python 2 reaches end of life and will probably removed
soon from Debian [1] and then most probably from Ubuntu-Mint
etc archives too. It is only the question of time. I think it will unlikely
happen till the Buster release (mid 2019), but it will probably
happen at the end of 2019.

Anyway, the migration of Yade onto Python 3 of Yade is really
necessary to guarantee the further project life in modern distributions.

It would be good if somebody finds some resources (time, man
power) and start this work. It should not be too difficult, but
requires time, knowledge and motivation to do this migration.

It will be necessary to guarantee the smooth migration period not
to break the other's work.

I will not do it due to extreme lack of free time, but can do some
kind of review/advice/etc.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/04/msg00508.html

Best regards

Anton