On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Aug 24, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Andrew Wang <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Given the presence of conda, I don't see Python 2.7 as that different as > > any other third-party dependency. For instance, test-patch has all kinds > of > > integrations that aren't available out-of-the-box on RHEL6 like Docker > and > > Gradle. > > As soon as we can make python 2.7 as optional as gradle and > docker, I'll be all for it. Well, the check compatibility tool at YETUS-445 is standalone and new code, so in that sense it is optional. I'm only talking about bumping the required version for this one tool. My reasoning here has been that this tool will primarily be run by release managers, and RMs are very likely to have Python 2.7 on their machine. ASF infra and servers in general are not really a target. Maybe one day if we want to run this as part of precommit, but then it can be optional like gradle and docker.
