Re: build on Python 2.6 broken and strongly suggested minimum version

2022-12-09 Thread Fred Wright via devel
On Thu, 8 Dec 2022, James Browning via devel wrote: Selsky broke the build[1] back in May 2020 when switching the python_scripts variable in /wscript to a set when Python 2.6 does not support sets. Given the lack of complaints, I suspect no one uses 2.6 anymore, which can be dropped. Python

Re: build on Python 2.6 broken and strongly suggested minimum version

2022-12-08 Thread James Browning via devel
On Dec 8, 2022, 13:22, Hal Murray via devel wrote: > I also think that we should drop all Python versions before 3.7 from > first-tier support and only continue supporting them if it is not > inconvenient or there is sufficient proven demand. Older but still supported versions of Debian and

Re: build on Python 2.6 broken and strongly suggested minimum version

2022-12-08 Thread Hal Murray via devel
> I also think that we should drop all Python versions before 3.7 from > first-tier support and only continue supporting them if it is not > inconvenient or there is sufficient proven demand. Older but still supported versions of Debian and CentOS are still using Python 2, but it's 2.7 rather