[Cryptography-dev] Unsupported platforms?

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

Speaking as the pyOpenSSL maintainer, I'd like time to perform one last
pyOpenSSL release along with an announcement that it will be the last
pyOpenSSL release to support Python 2.6.  Strictly speaking, I could
probably retain Python 2.6 support in pyOpenSSL even if the cryptography
project drops it but that seems unreasonable for several reasons (pyOpenSSL
shares many of cryptography's reasons for wanting to drop Python 2.6
support, requiring that pyOpenSSL continue to work with only cryptography
<= 0.8.1 will be a bunch of extra work, etc).

I can't say exactly when the next pyOpenSSL release will be but if the
cryptography project lays out its timeline for this then at least I'll know
what bounds I have to work with (and I'm clearly long overdue so as long as
you don't decide something like "tomorrow" I won't have much room to
complain).

Jean-Paul


On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'd like to propose we deprecate, with the intention of removing, support
> for Python 2.6. The reason for this is that Python 2.6 is no longer
> receiving support for the Python core developers in any form, including
> security releases.
>
> We provide a piece of security sensitive software, and I claim it would be
> irresponsible to say it's supported on platforms which are themselves not
> supported.
>
> This would affect our current downstreams, such as pyOpenSSL, Twisted, and
> OpenStack, as well as things we'd like to be our downstreams, such as
> Paramiko/Fabric. So I'm hoping some of them will chime in.
>
> By way of adding data around this: Django's latest release is 2.7/3.x
> only, however there has been some measure of requests to add additional
> long term support for a past release which has 2.6 support. I've seen
> numbers from Donald that (as of the end of last year) 2.6 is ~10-15% of
> PyPI downloads across the board.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Alex
>
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