[Twisted-Python] The Python 2.7 Plan

[Tom Most]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019, at 1:06 PM, Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote:
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>   Glyph also notes some infrastructure we use that is blocked on code fixes:
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>   - Trac: https://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/12130
>     Looks like we can leave the Trac instance running in a Twisted 19  WCGI server until they fix that.

Note that multipart requests (relevant for Trac if we want to support ticket attachments) are broken on Python 3.7+ due to some questionable changes to the cgi module. We may consider this blocking if we aim to transition to 3.7+. There is a fix here: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/1207

>   - DNS: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/9496
>     I'd suggest we do the same as with Trac until this is fixed, but Glyph disagrees.
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> [snip] I would suggest that our next release is the final release for 2.7.  
> This would require a fix to the DNS issue #9496.

I have a fix for this ready for review here: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/1212

---Tom