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

build on Python 2.6 broken and strongly suggested minimum version

2022-12-08 Thread James Browning via devel
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. I also think that we should drop all Python versions before 3.7 f