For example https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.9/
"All official maintenance for Python 2.6, including security patches, has ended." https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/v2.7.9/Misc/NEWS Especially the SSL stuff is interesting http://bugs.python.org/issue22935 P. On 01/13/2015 08:39 AM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > On 01/12/2015 03:55 PM, Roman Prykhodchenko wrote: >> Folks, >> >> as it was planned and then announced at the OpenStack summit >> OpenStack services deprecated Python-2.6 support. At the moment >> several services and libraries are already only compatible with >> Python>=2.7. And there is no common sense in trying to get back >> compatibility with Py2.6 because OpenStack infra does not run >> tests for that version of Python. >> >> The point of this email is that some components of Fuel, say, >> Nailgun and Fuel Client are still only tested with Python-2.6. >> Fuel Client in it’s turn is about to use OpenStack CI’s >> python-jobs for running unit tests. That means that in order to >> make it compatible with Py2.6 there is a need to run a separate >> python job in FuelCI. >> >> However, I believe that forcing the things being compatible with >> 2.6 when the rest of ecosystem decided not to go with it and when >> Py2.7 is already available in the main CentOS repo sounds like a >> battle with the common sense. So my proposal is to drop 2.6 >> support in Fuel-6.1. > > While I come from the lands where being bleeding edge is preferred, > I ask myself (as not programmer) one thing: what does 2.7 provide > that you cannot easily achieve in 2.6? > > Regards, Bartłomiej > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: > openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev