[Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?

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Therein lies my suggestion.  Pick a date, announce, give 3 months, then stop testing on 2.6

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> From: Donald Stufft [mailto:donald at stufft.io]
> Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 6:18 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Distutils] When can we kill Python 2.6 support?
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> > 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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