[Twisted-Python] [Twisted-web] Twisted is removing Python 2.6 support

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

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