Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

2016-09-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sep 02, 2016, at 05:05 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >Do we think that a ~3% usage of Python 2.6 and being end-of-life'd for ~3 >years is enough to start deprecating and dropping 2.6? Yes! Cheers, -Barry pgpCalDLuc3vp.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

2016-09-06 Thread Chris Barker
> Looking at pure usage numbers for "modern" versions of pip (6, 7, and 8) for downloading from PyPI I see the usage is ~3% of downloads are via Python 2.6. And a lot of those may be CI systems for packages that still support 2.6 deprecate away! -CHB On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 1:36 PM,

Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

2016-09-03 Thread Daniel Holth
It would be convenient to drop 2.6 in wheel too. On Sat, Sep 3, 2016, 14:14 Brett Cannon wrote: > I think the fact that Python 2.6 is past EOL means it's definitely up for > consideration. As for the 3% usage, as a trite comparison that's the amount > of scientists who deny

Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

2016-09-03 Thread Brett Cannon
I think the fact that Python 2.6 is past EOL means it's definitely up for consideration. As for the 3% usage, as a trite comparison that's the amount of scientists who deny climate change. So IMO that suggests 2.6 is not used enough to burden PyPA with the maintenance and those who still want to

Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

2016-09-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 3 September 2016 at 07:47, wrote: > Nick might have something better to say about this, but I don’t think > catching enterprise-y linux distros like RHEL out of the blue is a good way > to go, so even if we decide right now to drop 2.6 support, it shouldn’t >

Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

2016-09-02 Thread tritium-list
ils-sig@python.org> > Subject: Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support? > > > > On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:47 PM, tritium-l...@sdamon.com wrote: > > > > Nick might have something better to say about this, but I don’t think > catching enterprise-y linux distros like

Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

2016-09-02 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:47 PM, tritium-l...@sdamon.com wrote: > > Nick might have something better to say about this, but I don’t think > catching enterprise-y linux distros like RHEL out of the blue is a good way > to go, so even if we decide right now to drop 2.6 support, it shouldn’t >

Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

2016-09-02 Thread tritium-list
Nick might have something better to say about this, but I don’t think catching enterprise-y linux distros like RHEL out of the blue is a good way to go, so even if we decide right now to drop 2.6 support, it shouldn’t actually ship with breaking changes for like... 3 months? Maybe a little

Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

2016-09-02 Thread David Mertz
Kill it with fire! On Sep 2, 2016 2:06 PM, "Donald Stufft" wrote: > The packaging tools generally support 2.6+ and 3.(2|3)+ and that's sort of > been > where they've been at for a while now. I would like to think about what we > need > to be to start considering Python 2.6 as