[Cryptography-dev] [Proposal] Intent to deprecate and remove: Python 2.6

[Alex Gaynor]

Hi all,

To wrap a bow on this: on reviewing data from PyPI, it looks like a
significant percentage of Paramiko users are on 2.6. There's currently an
outstanding PR to port paramiko to use cryptography, and IMO that's more
important than dropping 2.6 for overall user security, so I'm going to drop
this until such time as the data supports it, unless anyone wants to argue
in favor vigorously.

Alex

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-12-22 at 22:43 -0500, Alex Gaynor wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to propose we formally deprecate (in our next release) and
> remove
> > (in the release thereafter) support for Python2.6.
> >
> > It is no longer under support from its developers (which makes it a
> > security risk), its use is more or less confined to users of CentOS and
> > RHEL (which means SCL is available to them, and they have a corporate
> > benefactor to complain to if it doesn't work), and its seriously funking
> > with our development workflow because it's so abysmally slow in CI (which
> > means it's annoying me enough to want to solve this).
> >
> > There is genuinely no justifiable reason to use Python 2.6 anymore, both
> > Django and Twisted have dropped it.
> >
> > If this would _seriously_ impact you, please reply to this thread. If
> > possible I'd also like to hear from our downstreams.
>
> We do not build python-cryptography for RHEL 6 so we do not have a
> strong reason to ask for 2.6 support.
> I can't speak for potential customers that may have a different opinion
> and build it themselves.
>
> Simo.
>
> --
> Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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