I believe Red Hat's new "Software Collections" things address this issue, this is to the point which Django (which has historically used RHEL as a barometer for when we could drop Pythons) will drop 2.6 in our next release.
Alex On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com> wrote: > > > On 07/23/2013 03:02 PM, Brian Curtin wrote: > > > > On Jul 23, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Eric Windisch <e...@cloudscaling.com > > <mailto:e...@cloudscaling.com>> > > wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Logan McNaughton <lo...@bacoosta.com > >> <mailto:lo...@bacoosta.com>> wrote: > >> > >> I'm sure this has been asked before, but what exactly is the plan > >> for Python 3 support? > >> > >> Is the plan to support 2 and 3 at the same time? I was looking > >> around for a blue print or something but I can't seem to find > >> anything. > >> > >> > >> I suppose a wiki page is due. This was discussed at the last summit: > >> https://etherpad.openstack.org/havana-python3 > >> > >> The plan is to support Python 2.6+ for the 2..x series and Python > >> 3.3+. This effort has begun for libraries (oslo) and clients. Work is > >> appreciated on the primary projects, but will ultimately become > >> stalled if the library work is not first completed. > > I'd like to add that at some point in the future it is our desire to > drop support for 2.6, as supporting 2.7 and 3.3+ is way easier than also > supporting 2.6. At the moment, I believe our main factor on that is the > current version of RHEL. Fingers crossed for a new one soon... :) > > We are also just finishing up getting 3.3 enabled build slaves in the CI > gate, so as projects get 3.3 compliant, we should be able to start > testing that. > > > FWIW, I came across https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Python3Deps and > > updated "routes", which currently works with 3.3. One small step, for > free! > > > > I'm a newcomer to this list, but I'm a CPython core contributor and am > > working in Developer Relations at Rackspace, so supporting Python 3 is > > right up my alley. > > Excellent! Welcome, glad to have you. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero GPG Key fingerprint: 125F 5C67 DFE9 4084
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