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 DD49F138C9D for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 04:49:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22709E08C4; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 04:49:47 +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 8C9C9E089E for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 04:49:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.10.156] (unknown [195.254.219.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bernalex) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EA915340E20 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2015 04:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <556D35E3.20303@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 06:49:39 +0200 From: Alexander Berntsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 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 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 References: <1432997883-13531-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <556CCBAA.8050504@gentoo.org> <20150602044259.GY4496@vapier> In-Reply-To: <20150602044259.GY4496@vapier> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: f63a8c06-e0ba-4644-b5f6-6c924336a1d0 X-Archives-Hash: be25b843088ee8366fecf42e6ed4c7e6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 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. I'd make the commit msg «Officially drop support for python 2.6, 3.1, & 3.2» to keep within 50c (personal preference). In any event, capital 'O' please. - -- Alexander bernalex@gentoo.org https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVbTXjAAoJENQqWdRUGk8BnQUQANZzAnBWoIPACNQ86RSt8nd3 HJ60WtHGUMJthHTf3J0xwK/DLsAd4iesOU/6/sKQJC2Cdvz98OHnneZ8/mLrw3pv 1lfn4oEdkQWhiCiDnJ85rl+f+s3AP9L3wDiX3TUX6rVhIXPz+8KxhNlvBWpdo/aN EdaQv3xWFi7l8IaN/HkDgOkgQdBJYOn7DnvcQJdGQDtk5/e/xp/JGdMssMhv6Cr3 gX5X40TJZQrkkTLBUdqNZRyNZxo8LrynR5MKD/IivIT7evcj8pGEE4IciM847JzG tGVruXq1ONay3ecw1SfyPwRUu1MJiy42OovCXGV1lkUrs0vXkG9RaUyUCkuKGzDh kSmluCDFAOlXbjTjWGpxwFP3hAf3VeRMCJ/Acby/PTGrPPotm/hYWhTJB7SGf8wh 9AR5YBBQj6BrPeFsHYqGMCXHI9ycxyfGSY/X/h9t1RAhLdaZF2QkwxutI55aQ2sh h3onfmLMtDz21dBsa6B8dFRenPJR34D95qzQ96kQ3tVLTgVlv/P7Xvb4lori2pTk eUsSVCKnXQL5v4xQCtG80UaS3ENieEwK5Hv3WNGH3LUcZWDhUT8v6fTzufQrBL1D Q8i66GM0t1FCFwTEZixA9WeBggQOVVqCLqtUm2gAn1SdAbTIz1uFAN0bRL4CuqJ9 dSN2VtsNrL6JjDJBr7i8 =HKg2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----