> On Mar 18, 2015, at 8:24 AM, Phil Mayers <p.may...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > > On 18/03/15 10:45, HawkOwl wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As Python 2.6 has been officially abandoned for a year+ (and will >> receive no further official security updates) and Python 2.7 has been >> available for almost five years, it might be time to put Python 2.6 >> support to bed. The only currently supported distro that has Python >> 2.6 is RHEL6, and RHEL7 with Python 2.7 has now been out for a year. >> >> This would be in line with other major projects (eg. Django, Plone) >> and Python's porting guide >> (https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html#drop-support-for-python-2-6-and-older). >> We can also remove some things from TestCase, and there's random >> smatterings of 2.6 support workarounds/comments that we could also >> remove. >> >> As such, I think we should make 15.1 the final release which >> officially supports Python 2.6. >> >> Any objections? > > Objectively it seems reasonable. > > Subjectively, it'll substantially inconvenience me (and others who have > RH/CentOS 6 systems which will be in service for years more). > > In the past, we've built and deployed a newer Python when this has happened > e.g. RHEL4/5. That was a huge pain in the arse, and we don't intend to repeat > it. Absent an EPEL package for python27, I suspect many people will do what > we intend to do - stop updating Twisted. > > Expect to see queries from people on older versions they can't update for > some time ;o) > > In all seriousness, I guess it depends on how useful this is. Being "in line" > with other projects doesn't seem like a useful goal - who cares what Plone > does? If it's useful for Twisted, then do it. > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
Isn’t the RHEL answer here to just use SCLs to install Python 2.7? --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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