Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] officially drop support for python 2.6, 3.1, and 3.2

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On 02 Jun 2015 06:49, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
> On 02/06/15 06:42, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > the portage ebuild dropped support:
> >   python 3.1: 21 months ago
> >   python 2.6: 10 months ago
> >   python 3.2: 8 weeks ago
> >
> > the python team itself no longer supports these versions either and 
> > it's not possible to install other modules using them.  they're 
> > already forcing you to pick 2.7 or 3.3+.
> You make a compelling case here.
> 
> > plus, i'm not talking about changing existing releases, just new 
> > ones, which means it's going to be a while before people are 
> > completely impacted.
> I realise that. Anything else would be stupid.
> 
> > at some point we have to move forward and the shims for 2.6/3.1/3.2 
> > are holding us back now.  2.6 is obvious enough, but 3.1 & 3.2 are a 
> > pain due to the unicode differences.  conversely, py2.7 and py3.3+ 
> > have the same unicode literal format.
> I agree on all points.
> 
> 
> So I think this patch would be fine to merge. I'd like Brian to chime in, but I'm a tentative +1.

<dol-sen> but yeah, I don't see a problem in dropping them
<zmedico> yeah
<dol-sen> especially since gkeys is not 3.2 capable
<dol-sen> and I'm starting to integrate it in portage
<zmedico> those pythons are ancient
-mike

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