Bhuvan's link [2] was the clincher for me. +1 to dropping support, as the python developers have.
-=Bill On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Bhuvan Arumugam <bhu...@apache.org> wrote: > Only reason I could think of supporting py26 is to support rhel6.x > customers. Now that rhel7 is out [1], it make sense to discontinue > support for py26. We should document it in supported platforms though. > We should add a pointer for rhel6.x customers to upgrade python. > > It also make sense as py26 is already eol [2]. > > That said, +1 to discontinue support for py26. > > [1] > http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/6/red-hat-unveils-rhel-7 > [2] > https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-September/128287.html > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Mark Chu-Carroll > <mchucarr...@apache.org> wrote: > > A couple of months ago, we had a discussion about which python versions > to > > support. (See > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-aurora-dev/201404.mbox/%3CCAFGkSCk71%2BziUQCsnMfStr-ucrT52DLEgBfHA-o097683PstLQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E > > to refresh your memory.) > > > > At the time, we punted on it, because we had a convenient workaround. But > > python version issues have continued to pop up from time to time. In > > particular, we've had issues like the current > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AURORA-585. > > > > The question that I'd like to put forward is: how much effort is it work > to > > continue to support Python 2.6? The Python maintainers are no longer > > maintaining 2.6 - the download page for the last release of 2.6 says: > > "With the 2.6.9 release, and five years after its first release, the > > Python 2.6 series is now officially retired. All official maintenance for > > Python 2.6, including security patches, has ended. For ongoing > maintenance > > releases, please see the Python 2.7 series. The NEWS file lists every > > change in each alpha, beta, release candidate, and final release of > Python > > 2.6." > > > > We certainly *can* continue to support Python2.6, but it's likely to be a > > non-trivial effort. Is it worth it? > > > > (Full disclosure, in case it's not obvious: I think as a provider of a > > distributed computing platform, continuing to support a python > interpreter > > that won't even get security fixes is not a good idea. I'm in favor of > > dropping 2.6.) > > > > -Mark > > > > -- > Regards, > Bhuvan Arumugam > www.livecipher.com >
