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0 pointsMaursault4y ago0 comments

My apologies, I didn't remotely intend to suggest every single comment was a troll, but only that there are yt-dlp users that have trolled that thread.

The criticism of supporting python2 is fair, but not unassailable. I am personally against steady progress necessarily breaking in advancing increments things that worked years ago. My opinions on software are my own, but I strongly believe if software works even once, there's no reason it shouldn't work forever. I despise Adobe's and now Apple's models of breaking your old software to force you to purchase again for identical functionality. But I suppose it is a different case when developers are actively working against each other. However, python2 was only recently deprecated. Just because I can't think of an example, it is still likely being used, and there may be 20yo but still useful hw somewhere that does not support any recently released OS or software but is still a worthy youtube-dl utility. Maybe the critics of supporting old versions of python can wait.

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nyuszika7h4y ago

Depends on what you mean by "recently". Python 2 has been EOL for over two years now. The lowest version yt-dlp supports, Python 3.6, was released five years ago, and I would say it's a pretty usable version. The only reason it even took so long for Python 2 to become EOL is because people kept dragging out the transition from Python 2 because of a few annoyances in initial versions of Python 3 that were mostly addressed by 3.3-3.4 or so.

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0 pointsMaursault4y ago0 comments

My apologies, I didn't remotely intend to suggest every single comment was a troll, but only that there are yt-dlp users that have trolled that thread.

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nyuszika7h4y ago

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