> On 23 Dec 2015, at 03:43, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to propose we formally deprecate (in our next release) and remove 
> (in the release thereafter) support for Python2.6.
> 
> It is no longer under support from its developers (which makes it a security 
> risk), its use is more or less confined to users of CentOS and RHEL (which 
> means SCL is available to them, and they have a corporate benefactor to 
> complain to if it doesn't work), and its seriously funking with our 
> development workflow because it's so abysmally slow in CI (which means it's 
> annoying me enough to want to solve this).
> 
> There is genuinely no justifiable reason to use Python 2.6 anymore, both 
> Django and Twisted have dropped it.
> 
> If this would _seriously_ impact you, please reply to this thread. If 
> possible I'd also like to hear from our downstreams.

I strongly support this move. At this point I’ve received strong suggestions 
from Red Hat employees that would actively like Python OSS projects to stop 
supporting Python 2.6. If this is the case, I seen no reason for any PyCA 
project to continue to support Python 2.6 for their upcoming releases.

Cory

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