[Cryptography-dev] Unsupported platforms?

[Alex Gaynor]

I think emitting a DeprecationWarning, with no timetable for actually
dropping support, would be a great way forward, and long term we can use
download statistics to inform a final decision.

Alex

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Do you think a warning on import that suggests an upgrade (similar to what
> requests does for Python < 2.7.9) without removing support is a reasonable
> path forward?
>
> Jython doesn't support C extensions so not right now. There are some
> efforts (http://jyni.org) to add support for it and in some past
> conversations with jython devs they've talked a bit about jffi, but for now
> we don't work there.
>
> On March 29, 2015 at 2:28:54 PM, Matěj Cepl (mcepl at cepl.eu) wrote:
>
> On 29/03/15 12:16, Alex Stapleton wrote:
> > Aren't RedHat supporting 2.6 within RHEL 6 until 2020?
>
> Yes, we will. Most likely even a little bit longer
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Product_life_cycle).
>
>
> I would strongly plea for not dropping 2.6. One of the reasons I like
> this whole project (and why as one of co-maintainer of the upstream of
> M2Crypto I am suggesting it to all my users) is that I hope it could
> be finally one true Python cryptographic library (after all, "There
> should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it.").
> If PyCA could finally kill all those other projects like M2Crypto,
> python-crypto (please!) et all, it would be the great thing.
>
> However, I believe, the key to this mission is that PyCA needs to
> support all reasonably supported versions of Python first (BTW, does
> PyCA work with Jython?), otherwise all those other crypto libraries
> still have raison d'être.
>
> Matěj
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