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by gchamonlive 1974 days ago
> A release that is only supported for five years is a hobby project.

I believe what you are trying to say is that you chose the wrong tool for the job. It is really condescending to lash out on other projects like that just because they don't share the same needs as you. They owe you nothing. Python is free and open source, just fork the damn language spec and support it yourself.
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icebraining 1974 days ago
The discussion is about ArcGIS, not Python.
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gchamonlive 1974 days ago
The discussion is about a specific version of ArcGIS that only supports a version of python that reached its end of life, so I beg to differ. My point stands: if you had the need for a really long supported tech, in the order of decades, choosing a tech based on a dependency that had a clear life span of 5 years or so was a poor choice. If, still, you need that, you can support it yourself, by forking your own version, but python owes ArcGIS nothing.
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