[Cryptography-dev] Unsupported platforms?

[Alex Gaynor]

I think we'd want to do a full deprecation cycle on this:

0.9: PendingDeprecationWarning
1.0: DeprecationWarning
1.1: removed

So that's like, 2.5 months notice or so? (Not sure quite how quickly we've
been releasing in past).

Donald: How hard would it be to get download statistics for cryptography
and pyOpenSSL from the last few months by Python versoin?

Alex

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Jean-Paul Calderone <
jean-paul at clusterhq.com> wrote:

> Speaking as the pyOpenSSL maintainer, I'd like time to perform one last
> pyOpenSSL release along with an announcement that it will be the last
> pyOpenSSL release to support Python 2.6.  Strictly speaking, I could
> probably retain Python 2.6 support in pyOpenSSL even if the cryptography
> project drops it but that seems unreasonable for several reasons (pyOpenSSL
> shares many of cryptography's reasons for wanting to drop Python 2.6
> support, requiring that pyOpenSSL continue to work with only cryptography
> <= 0.8.1 will be a bunch of extra work, etc).
>
> I can't say exactly when the next pyOpenSSL release will be but if the
> cryptography project lays out its timeline for this then at least I'll know
> what bounds I have to work with (and I'm clearly long overdue so as long as
> you don't decide something like "tomorrow" I won't have much room to
> complain).
>
> Jean-Paul
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'd like to propose we deprecate, with the intention of removing, support
>> for Python 2.6. The reason for this is that Python 2.6 is no longer
>> receiving support for the Python core developers in any form, including
>> security releases.
>>
>> We provide a piece of security sensitive software, and I claim it would
>> be irresponsible to say it's supported on platforms which are themselves
>> not supported.
>>
>> This would affect our current downstreams, such as pyOpenSSL, Twisted,
>> and OpenStack, as well as things we'd like to be our downstreams, such as
>> Paramiko/Fabric. So I'm hoping some of them will chime in.
>>
>> By way of adding data around this: Django's latest release is 2.7/3.x
>> only, however there has been some measure of requests to add additional
>> long term support for a past release which has 2.6 support. I've seen
>> numbers from Donald that (as of the end of last year) 2.6 is ~10-15% of
>> PyPI downloads across the board.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Alex
>>
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