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Rob,

Please see:
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/juno-cross-project-future-of-python

-- dims

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> On 13 July 2015 at 20:08, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 07/13/2015 03:29 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
>>> So, we've got constraints support for tox coming together nicely.
>>>
>>> The rollout for that will be per project (because tox.ini needs to
>>> change).
>>>
>>> However, we're not compiling, nor are we easily able to do so, a
>>> constraints set for Python 2.6. (We compile one unified file with
>>> all our constraints, which requires a VM with all the Python's we
>>> need to use installed on it).
>>>
>>> Enabling constraints on py2.6 tox jobs will fail to constrain
>>> anything which varies by Python version.
>>>
>>> So - folk that haven't disabled their 2.6 jobs (you know who you
>>> are) - you probably want to do so now in master. Its' my
>>> understanding that they were meant to be disabled during kilo but
>>> they've fallen through the cracks.
>>>
>>
>> clients and oslo libraries still maintain their py26 for a reason:
>> decision to drop py26 was for server projects only.
>
> Huh.
>
> I wasn't part of that discussion... does anyone have a link to why
> we're supporting a release upstream have completely moved on from 2
> years ago?
>
> Surely folk wanting to use clients from Python2.6 could just use our
> older API clients, which due to good backwards compat should still
> work.
>
> -Rob
>
>
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> Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
> Distinguished Technologist
> HP Converged Cloud
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