[Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Fri Sep 2 18:18:02 EDT 2016


> On Sep 2, 2016, at 5:47 PM, tritium-list at sdamon.com wrote:
> 
> Nick might have something better to say about this, but I don’t think catching enterprise-y linux distros like RHEL out of the blue is a good way to go, so even if we decide right now to drop 2.6 support, it shouldn’t actually ship with breaking changes for like... 3 months?  Maybe a little more or little less.


Right, I don’t specifically mean immediately ejecting support, but rather deprecate and then drop along whatever the normal timeline is for project (and stop worrying about 2.6 for new stuff).

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Donald Stufft





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