Originally Posted by
malvin1
"...our own expense" vs "...we are forced by the python people to move everything to python 3"
Everyone can decide, what the real reason is.
P.s. There is still an OpenViX Archives link - which is empty of course.
Will it exist sometimes again ?
You are mixing things up.
From January 1st 2020 Python 2 is dead. No bug fixes whatsoever. Nothing. Zilch.
https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/
Saving old feeds costs money. We were out of space and changes would cost money. No user or manufacturer pays anything towards our servers. Each machine's is around 2 GB, plus the image files themselves. We maintain more than 60 machines. So that is around 120 GB for each version. And feeds are currently maintained for 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2. Only 5.4 and older feeds were removed.
Code:
[root@ns3324542 ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 20026236 2333960 16651944 13% /
devtmpfs 4032384 0 4032384 0% /dev
tmpfs 4032868 0 4032868 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 4032868 427532 3605336 11% /run
tmpfs 4032868 0 4032868 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3 1902052484 1542032348 263378448 86% /var
tmpfs 806576 0 806576 0% /run/user/0
[root@ns3324542 ~]#
And like I already said, if you want 5.4 feeds you can build and maintain them yourself. Nothing stopping you.