On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > >> On Dec 14, 2015, at 3:53 PM, pisymbol . <pisym...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz >> <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: >>> I did a pip install and it said I needed Python 2.7 or higher. Let me >>> reevaluate if I can just update twisted. >>> >>> >>> Try `pip install twisted==15.4´ if you still require Python2.6 support; `pip >>> install twisted´ will install the latest, which no longer works on 2.6. >> >> Yeah, that's what I did. It's working now! > > Great! Glad to hear you were able to make a huge leap in Twisted versions > with little trouble :-). > >>> But again: Python 2.6 is unsupported by the upstream Python developers. You >>> really should not be using it, since it won't receive security updates (of >>> course, Red Hat and transitively CentOS claim to "support" these packages, >>> but if upstream is refusing patches at this point, it's not clear where that >>> support will come from). >> >> As you can imagine, this boils down to politics. > > I understand that things like this often do, which is exactly why I want to > make it clear that we (speaking in terms of the broader Python community now, > not just Twisted) are trying to push people towards more recent versions just > because they're more fun or more aesthetically pleasant, but because there > are very real risks associated with being on unsupported ancient versions of > things. It pains me not to be supporting a configuration that some users > want, but there is a line where "conservative about change" becomes > "negligent about maintenance" and python 2.6 crossed it a little over two > years ago :-).
I'm not disagreeing with you per se...but... The fact is the Python community at large then needs to convince the distro maintainers accordingly. Telling a customer to update their entire platform for a newer version of Python isn't going to fly a lot of times (and remember, someone of them have support agreements with RH). And running two versions of Python can get messy real fast. Anyway, it is what it is. >>> If you must use CentOS 6, then I'd recommend installing PyPy 4.0 from >>> https://github.com/squeaky-pl/portable-pypy#portable-pypy-distribution-for-linux >>> and using that. In addition to being security-supported, it will also make >>> your python code run 10x faster :). >> >> Interesting, I'll take a look. > > Hope that works out for you. Good luck! Thanks! So far, so good. I was now able to lift my prototype code and integrate it with the rest. I'll probably have more questions at some point, but at least 15.4 did the trick! -aps _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
