Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-24 Thread Phil Mayers
On 20/03/15 00:23, David Ripton wrote: On 03/19/2015 08:05 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: On 18/03/15 23:57, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: Rather than just suggest we preserve the status quo and stay on 2.6 forever to do indefinite free work to support Red Hat's obsolescence You *definitely* shouldn't do t

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-20 Thread Raymond Cote
> On Mar 18, 2015, at 8:29 AM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > >> On Mar 18, 2015, at 8:24 AM, Phil Mayers 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.

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-20 Thread kathy farnsworth
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Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-19 Thread HawkOwl
> On 20 Mar 2015, at 13:47, Donald Stufft wrote: > > >> On Mar 20, 2015, at 1:43 AM, Glyph wrote: >> >>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 5:05 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: >>> >>> I honestly wouldn't worry about it too much; RedHat's policies aren't and >>> shouldn't be Twisted's problem. Do what's best for

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-19 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Mar 20, 2015, at 1:43 AM, Glyph wrote: > >> On Mar 19, 2015, at 5:05 AM, Phil Mayers > > wrote: >> >> I honestly wouldn't worry about it too much; RedHat's policies aren't and >> shouldn't be Twisted's problem. Do what's best for your development. > > The

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-19 Thread Glyph
> On Mar 19, 2015, at 5:05 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: > > I honestly wouldn't worry about it too much; RedHat's policies aren't and > shouldn't be Twisted's problem. Do what's best for your development. The problem is that they kinda are Twisted's problem - in the sense that we want our users to k

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-19 Thread David Ripton
On 03/19/2015 08:05 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: > On 18/03/15 23:57, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > >> Rather than just suggest we preserve the status quo and stay on 2.6 >> forever to do indefinite free work to support Red Hat's obsolescence > > You *definitely* shouldn't do that. Push back on RedHat, and

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-19 Thread Phil Mayers
On 18/03/15 23:57, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: Rather than just suggest we preserve the status quo and stay on 2.6 forever to do indefinite free work to support Red Hat's obsolescence You *definitely* shouldn't do that. Push back on RedHat, and tell customers to push back on RedHat. I say this to

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-19 Thread Phil Mayers
On 19/03/15 00:42, Donald Stufft wrote: If you want newer than that you could possibly convince PyPy to build RPMs with COPR. I’m doing that for python-pip and co and it’s not very hard once you have the RPM spec file originally written, which could probably just be taken from Fedora. IME that

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-18 Thread exarkun
On 18 Mar, 10:45 am, hawk...@atleastfornow.net 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 curren

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-18 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Mar 18, 2015, at 7:57 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > >> >> On Mar 18, 2015, at 5:29 AM, Donald Stufft wrote: >> >> >>> On Mar 18, 2015, at 8:24 AM, Phil Mayers wrote: >>> >>> On 18/03/15 10:45, HawkOwl wrote: Hi, As Python 2.6 has been officially abandoned for a year+ (a

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-18 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
> On Mar 18, 2015, at 5:29 AM, Donald Stufft wrote: > > >> On Mar 18, 2015, at 8:24 AM, Phil Mayers 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.

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-18 Thread HawkOwl
> On 18 Mar 2015, at 21:02, Phil Mayers wrote: > > On 18/03/15 12:29, Donald Stufft wrote: > >> Isn’t the RHEL answer here to just use SCLs to install Python 2.7? > > I've never actually come across the SCL stuff before. Thanks for the pointer. > > My latter point still stands - don't do it b

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-18 Thread Phil Mayers
On 18/03/15 12:29, Donald Stufft wrote: Isn’t the RHEL answer here to just use SCLs to install Python 2.7? I've never actually come across the SCL stuff before. Thanks for the pointer. My latter point still stands - don't do it because others do it, do it because it's good for Twisted (or

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-18 Thread Donald Stufft
> On Mar 18, 2015, at 8:24 AM, Phil Mayers 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

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-18 Thread Phil Mayers
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 th

Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-18 Thread Itamar Turner-Trauring
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Re: [Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-18 Thread Adi Roiban
Nope. Not for my part. +1 for removing it. Thanks! -- Adi Roiban ___ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python

[Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

2015-03-18 Thread HawkOwl
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 R