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 tell > customers to push back on RedHat. I say this to other projects.
Red Hat supports old versions of RHEL forever because they have customers that want that (because they have legacy apps that they want to keep working with minimal maintenance, but who still want security patches), and are willing to pay for it. It's a good thing that someone provides that option, even if we don't all need it. That doesn't mean Twisted needs to support old versions of RHEL forever. RHEL 7 has been out for a while, and comes with Python 2.7 as the default. So even if Twisted drops support for Python 2.6, it'll still work on RHEL. (Just not on old versions of RHEL.) Furthermore, SCL makes Python 2.7 available (in /opt) on RHEL 5 and 6 and CentOS 6, without users needing to build it themselves. So even those who are stuck with old versions can install SCL, then use pip to install new Twisted. IOW, I wouldn't worry about it. Drop support for Python 2.6 when it makes sense for Twisted. -- David Ripton drip...@ripton.net _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
