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

[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 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.

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David Ripton    dripton at ripton.net