[openstack-dev] [Fuel] Dropping Python-2.6 support

Kamil Sambor ksambor at mirantis.com
Wed Jan 14 07:50:44 UTC 2015


Tomasz we are not using ssl in our client so now we not gain anything from
moving to 2.7 .

Best regards,
– Kamil S.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski <
bpiotrowski at mirantis.com> wrote:

> On 01/13/2015 11:16 PM, Tomasz Napierala wrote:
>
>>
>>  On 13 Jan 2015, at 10:51, Przemyslaw Kaminski <pkaminski at mirantis.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> For example
>>>
>>> https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.9/
>>>
>>> "All official maintenance for Python 2.6, including security patches,
>>> has ended."
>>>
>>> https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/v2.7.9/Misc/NEWS
>>>
>>> Especially the SSL stuff is interesting
>>>
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue22935
>>>
>>
>> This looks like final word here. We cannot provide software, that has no
>> security support.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
> I can hardly see it as a justification for maintaining yet another package
> on our own while Red Hat is supposed to provide backports of security fixes
> to python 2.6 until 2020.
>
> I wanted to hear exact use cases of 2.7 features that allow us to
> accomplish things easier than it is now with 2.6. As Doug already said,
> clients and Oslo libraries will maintain compatibility with 2.6. So what is
> the real gain?
>
> Regards,
> Bartłomiej
>
>
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