Bug #98839 Please port to Python3 (Python2 is obsolete)

• Submitted: 5 Mar 2020 6:26
• Modified: 21 Apr 2022 13:01
• Reporter: Dmitry Smirnov
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Workbench
• Severity: S2 (Serious)
• Version: 8.0.19
• OS: Debian
• CPU Architecture: Any
• Tags: python, python3

[5 Mar 2020 6:26] Dmitry Smirnov

Description:
Please update MySQL Workbench for Python3.

Python2 is EOL, obsolete, unmaintained and not preset in modern GNU+Linux distributions any more.

How to repeat:
Build M-W from source on Debian "unstable" (where only Python3 is available).

Suggested fix:
Port to Python3.

[7 Mar 2020 13:24] MySQL Verification Team

Hello Dmitry,

Thank you for the report and feedback!

Thanks,
Umesh

[6 Jun 2020 17:50] Jack Ostroff

Is there any udpate, even just a confirmation that this is being worked on?

[2 Sep 2020 14:29] Sean Harmer

Is this being worked on please? I need this on a daily basis on Linux and python 2 is going away very shortly.

[19 Dec 2020 18:55] Jack Ostroff

Just FYI, this package has now been dropped from Gentoo, due to the python2 dependency.

[6 Jan 2021 13:35] Fabio Rossi

is there any plan in porting mysql-workbench to python3?

[21 Apr 2022 13:01] MySQL Verification Team

Per internal closure note, this is fixed in 8.0.24