[openstack-dev] [Fuel] Dropping python2.6 compatibility

Thomas Goirand zigo at debian.org
Thu Dec 3 14:21:21 UTC 2015


On 12/03/2015 11:21 AM, Evgeniy L wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> During Fuel master migration to CentOS7 there was found a problem that tests
> get failed [0] for python2.6
> 
> As far as I can see it's a common practise to drop python2.6
> compatibility [1],
> shouldn't we switch tests to work with python2.7 instead of python2.6?
> 
> It looks like fuelclient will be an exception, because clients continue
> supporting
> python2.6 [1]
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> [0] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/251120/
> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Python3#Python_2:_Python_2.6_support_dropped.2C_Python_2.7_only

I believe [1] is obsolete already. Please *completely* remove Py2.6
support, including in fuelclient. This otherwise create issues on the
packaging level (like having to patch out modules like argparse and such).

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)




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