[Cryptography-dev] Unsupported platforms?

[Alex Stapleton]

Aren't RedHat supporting 2.6 within RHEL 6 until 2020?

In principle I could be convinced this would be OK though. Particularly if 
we commit to continuing to do any security patches they need and the 
packaging situation isn't going to cause them too much disruption.


On 28 March 2015 19:30:09 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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