[Cryptography-dev] Unsupported platforms?

[Alex Gaynor]

Anyone using Python 2.6 does not have cryptography available in their
distros repos.

Alex

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Terry Chia <terrycwk1994 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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