[Cython] Drop Cython wheels for 2.6?

Robert Bradshaw robertwb at math.washington.edu
Mon Nov 20 21:09:31 EST 2017


Wheels are a convenience; I'm OK with not going through extra hoops to
support them for a version of Python retired years ago. Until we
actually drop support for 2.6 entirely one can still install from
source.

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at vorpus.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The manylinux1 docker image has just stopped supporting Python 2.6, so
>> we can no longer build Python 2.6 wheels without putting some hacks on
>> top:
>>
>> https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/pull/125#issuecomment-345770870
>>
>> Do y'all care about that?
>
> To clarify, it's not so much that the docker image officially dropped
> support, as that pip dropped support and the last rebuild happened to
> pick that up, so we should figure out whether to drop it officially or
> what: https://github.com/pypa/manylinux/issues/126
>
> -n
>
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> Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org
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