01/03: website: gnu-guix-1.4.0-released: Mention Python 2 package removal.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix-artwork.

commit 99bdc20958759f0fa900427a665511016583dd79
Author: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
AuthorDate: Sun Dec 18 17:57:38 2022 +0100

    website: gnu-guix-1.4.0-released: Mention Python 2 package removal.
    
    Suggested by zimoun.
    
    * website/drafts/gnu-guix-1.4.0-released.md: Add paragraph about
    Python 2.
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 website/drafts/gnu-guix-1.4.0-released.md | 12 ++++++++++++
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diff --git a/website/drafts/gnu-guix-1.4.0-released.md 
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--- a/website/drafts/gnu-guix-1.4.0-released.md
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@@ -421,6 +421,18 @@ Qt 6 is also available.  The distribution also comes with 
GCC 12.2.0,
 GNU libc 2.33, Xfce 4.16, Linux-libre 6.0.10, LibreOffice 7.4.3.2, and
 Emacs 28.2 (with just-in-time compilation support!).
 
+In other news, motivated by the fact that Python 2 officially reached
+“end of life” in 2020, more than 500 **Python 2 packages** were
+removed—those whose name starts with `python2-`.  This includes “big
+ones” like `python2-numpy` and `python2-scipy`.  Those who still need
+these have two options: using [`guix
+time-machine`](https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-time_002dmachine.html)
+to jump to an older commit that contains the packages they need, or
+using the [Guix-Past](https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-past)
+channel to build some of those old packages in today’s
+environments—scientific computing is one area where this may come in
+handy.
+
 On top of that, the Web site features a [**new package
 browser**](https://packages.guix.gnu.org)—at last!  Among other things,
 the package browse provides stable package URLs like