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

[Raymond Cote]

> On Mar 18, 2015, at 8:29 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Mar 18, 2015, at 8:24 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> On 18/03/15 10:45, HawkOwl wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> As Python 2.6 has been officially abandoned for a year+ (and will
>>> receive no further official security updates) and Python 2.7 has been
>> 
>> In the past, we've built and deployed a newer Python when this has happened e.g. RHEL4/5. That was a huge pain in the arse, and we don't intend to repeat it. Absent an EPEL package for python27, I suspect many people will do what we intend to do - stop updating Twisted.
>> 
>> Expect to see queries from people on older versions they can't update for some time ;o)
>> 
>> In all seriousness, I guess it depends on how useful this is. Being "in line" with other projects doesn't seem like a useful goal - who cares what Plone does? If it's useful for Twisted, then do it.
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> Isn’t the RHEL answer here to just use SCLs to install Python 2.7?
> 
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> Donald Stufft
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+1 for removal

We have quite a number of Twisted installations on RHEL6 (even RHEL5), but we always install a custom Python — never want to touch the system Python (except for very simple scripts).

Rest of our distributions are on Windows and we’ve been moving legacy code to 2.7 for some time now.
Need to keep up with the security enhancements…

—Ray
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