Hi dev@, This topic came up on YETUS-445. I'd like to make the case for requiring Python 2.7.
As a bit of background, the main offender here is RHEL6. RHEL7 has been out for two years and has some penetration, but RHEL6 is still out there and supported. My take on it: * This tool is aimed at release managers, and no one runs RHEL6 on their personal dev machine. * Even for build machines, Docker is not supported on RHEL6 ( https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1378023). FWIW, Docker is a requirement for building a Hadoop release and used by Hadoop precommit. * If you really do need to use RHEL6, you can use conda ( http://conda.pydata.org/miniconda.html) to install Python 2.7 quite easily. I've used it, and it's great. Thoughts? Andrew
