Just to clarify: we currently support *both* Python 2.6 and Python 2.7. The poll is to see if we should continue supporting 2.6.
You might ask why we supported 2.6 in the first place: this came from our long experience working on Cloudify. Many cloud environments are still quite old, and many companies still run very old versions of CentOS or Debian, which do not come with Python 2.7 out of the box. However, with our hand on the pulse it seems that these old OSes are fading away. Since ARIA is forward-looking, it may make sense to remove this requirement. On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Thomas Nadeau <[email protected]> wrote: > > We’ve been considering moving from 2.6 onto the latest 2.7 for > some time now, > and it looks like its time to seriously consider cutting over. Tal has > pointed out > numerous times that because of the 2.6 support, we have a lot of extra > testing > and staging that could be eliminated, plus some other benefits that he > might > want to elaborate on here. > > With this in mind, I wanted to take a poll of the community above > making this > move. I would like to hear from both users and devs as to whether or not > this is cool. > I’d like to also ask that regardless of your position, that you please > indicate a time frame > for moving towards 2.7.x because even if you don’t want the project to > move, it is > going to eventually move on but if there are any gating issues requiring > us to > take a slower than immediate move here, we need to know and plan for this. > > Thanks! > > —Tom > >
