👍 On Wed, Sep 5, 2018, 4:42 AM Federico Capoano <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > the new stable version of django-channels, the official django package > that provides support for websockets, now requires python 3.5 or higher, > because it uses the async await syntax which was released in python 3.5. > > The newer versions of Python, starting with python 3.5 bring huge > improvements to the language and to the performance of python 3 > <https://ep2018.europython.eu/conference/talks/analysis-of-cpython-performance-python-3-is-now-faster-than-python2> > (which was notoriously slightly slower in some cases compared to python > 2.7). > > Also django 2.0 dropped support for python 2.7 so basically we are already > requiring python 3 to run OpenWISP. > > Is anybody here using OpenWISP with python 2.7? > > This change will have repercussions also on the operating systems we > support, we should probably support only recent operating systems which > have python 3.5 installed by default, this would also simplify maintenance > a lot for us. > But before going ahead on this I wanted to check here if anyone is against > this. > > Let me know what you think! > > Federico > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OpenWISP" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
