From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4AF138C9D for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 14:43:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC24FE0932; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 14:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5D190E0930 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 14:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FF32340D72 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 14:43:19 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 10:43:18 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] officially drop support for python 2.6, 3.1, and 3.2 Message-ID: <20150602144318.GA23039@vapier> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1432997883-13531-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <556CCBAA.8050504@gentoo.org> <20150602044259.GY4496@vapier> <556D35E3.20303@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <556D35E3.20303@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 18802551-115f-4ab1-ab65-4b0117b39231 X-Archives-Hash: 3714ef658d328f68309368ba72a8b70f --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > > it's not possible to install other modules using them. they're=20 > > already forcing you to pick 2.7 or 3.3+. > You make a compelling case here. >=20 > > plus, i'm not talking about changing existing releases, just new=20 > > ones, which means it's going to be a while before people are=20 > > completely impacted. > I realise that. Anything else would be stupid. >=20 > > at some point we have to move forward and the shims for 2.6/3.1/3.2=20 > > are holding us back now. 2.6 is obvious enough, but 3.1 & 3.2 are a=20 > > pain due to the unicode differences. conversely, py2.7 and py3.3+=20 > > have the same unicode literal format. > I agree on all points. >=20 >=20 > So I think this patch would be fine to merge. I'd like Brian to chime in,= but I'm a tentative +1. but yeah, I don't see a problem in dropping them yeah especially since gkeys is not 3.2 capable and I'm starting to integrate it in portage those pythons are ancient -mike --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVbcEGAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBhSAP/i6d9YHqda+oErTtv8+zrIFd LCwjhvcAWXLWxgq/P/VwoztfqE19glA678vJzy8SPkynLSgOQ/YaayD2MNErxNCX oLlRITjHIbx2nTcsADhF3tayoxvTBrdsk16C26b14X9/Ne1Ts7sNO+h67UlDfbYi XmivIE8iZsbNb6fotP7kMxyXPlnHQ76EUZJAzwjj6Lu7vrvX6w2mc2qgvWv6VZv7 PjnR4qDH0jDbHh9pWiFTm0cjSE7feLxiTdcNVI0wKYgj7U+QxpA6+yozQAE+nDch GKSewtob4N2kwrSJbNDxI72iXizoVtFX8Lt881GibCETH7b1EKS9+ghusEFv9Iys 4Z2eMGU/TDDpuJ46Gy9opKnFTgR0vviNLwrkGI7lKsH+5L4JG3vge5zmYklRhsHb vzUu7CbUN3WR7AlnHBQ4COhbKdvgOMgN5n/gkUOU3VETmALKBqMzzW9yqu26s6IF JM4oIP7PrZ9hjvouGG2oSxuYLFhb5SNj2wGdgypk7F9dC6+iZZJ2xj1LrBKfcovT fwr1R3noxxyhmZPDlVY6DRmbQly1iAOGGR3njLDt4v/qkQN6KlJCoZgrqgBapnOG JCo5bpbdqhXZ2QGUbGZx8iVLzJT76rq0ljrHH6fvBkQAdySQDDjae4VZYaICoogA 0W8E8vTRUr7biJipqPJl =rey5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl--