[Cryptography-dev] pyca/cryptography python 3.2 support

[Alex Gaynor]

Have we confirmed that all important downstreams (pyOpenSSL, Twisted,
eventually Fabric/Paramiko, urllib3/requests) have dropped 3.2?

Alex

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Laurens Van Houtven <_ at lvh.io> wrote:

> I for one support any and all efforts that reduce the number of supported
> Python 3.x versions ;-)
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Terry Chia <terrycwk1994 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> FWIW I'm fully in support of this as it doesn't seem like we'll be
>> dropping support for any major platforms and 3.2 use is basically nil at
>> this point.
>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 at 10:23 pm Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Recently we've had several situations where our project's Python 3.2
>>> support blocks us from using libraries we'd like to consume (idna,
>>> characteristic, etc). Donald opened an issue (
>>> https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/1809) with some evidence
>>> that we're performing significant contortions to support a version no one
>>> uses. I propose that we drop support for Python 3.2 in the next release and
>>> move forward with Python 2.6 (deprecated but no timeline for removal),
>>> Python 2.7, and 3.3+ support.
>>>
>>> I've put in a PR (https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/1846) to
>>> note this in the changelog and update our travis configuration. If there
>>> are no substantial objections in the next few days we can merge and then
>>> update jenkins to reflect this as well.
>>>
>>> -Paul Kehrer
>>>
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