[Twisted-Python] [Twisted-web] Twisted is removing Python 2.6 support
exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Mon Jun 8 04:38:18 MDT 2015
On 10:30 am, glyph at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>
>I think that new hardware would still be preferable because this
>machine is old, slow, overtaxed, and unreliable. For example, it runs
>Speed Center as well as the OS X builder. We have redundancy in most
>of our other builders now, which is very useful especially during times
>of heavy activity, like sprints, where lots of concurrent builds are
>going on, but this is the sole OS X builder.
>
>Another area where redundancy would be nice is when doing upgrades.
>For example, if the download ever finishes, I'm going to pull the
>trigger on this Yosemite upgrade, and ... hopefully it works? If it
>doesn't, we will have zero Mac builders until someone in the data
>center that is donating hosting can plug a console into that machine
>and see why it didn't finish booting. There's not really a good way to
>manage this right now.
>
>Finally, it would be nice to actually support multiple pythons on
>multiple OS versions - all the still supported / updated ones, anyway -
>and we'd need multiple builders for that.
I agree with all of this with one minor caveat - there are currently two
OS X slaves:
http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/buildslaves/bot-exarkun-1
http://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/buildslaves/osuosl-osx10.6
(and incidentally if someone wants to rename the former I think that'd
be nice).
Jean-Paul
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