[croh]

Please understand how big codebase is. Porting pyqt stuff is not easy. If you see comments in bug, author and others already started to work on port, but they knew it will take time and they were sure of easyness of maintaining old version. It is always easy to whine than UNDERSTANDING and DOING actual work. As you're already developer, you must know that if it is that easy, author had it ported already

Plus as port itself doesn't affect any user experience, it was not emergency situation. It is just that 'we are working FREELY with our own pace, so it will take time. Actual contribution is really appriciated than complains'

There is another similar program I miss is, leafpad. It is dropped by distros as not yet ported.

[atoav]

I do understand that, my point was precisely that this is always a tradeoff between multiple things. If maintaining the old version is easier than migrating to the new one, you don't do it.

This balance — however — can change with time. E.g. if one of your major dependency moves to Python 3? Or gets abandoned.

I didn't say it was easy, my point was that over time more and more dependencies make a shift to Python 3 as well, which means at some point Python 2 stuff becomes harder to maintain. Whether that point happens early or late depends entirely on the project.

Additionally I nowhere said that this must be done by anyone — you are projecting here.