[Cryptography-dev] Unsupported platforms?

[Terry Chia]

Download statistics on PyPi doesn't show the whole picture if we are
talking about distro support though.

+1 on a long term DeprecationWarning.
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 at 4:45 am Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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