[Scons-dev] Argumentation for Python 2.6 support removal

[William Blevins]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) <
ttanner2 at bloomberg.net> wrote:

> It's not dead and buried where I work yet. I'm working on it.
>

Python 2.6 development has been security only for at least 5 years. Linux
operating systems still defaulting to Python 2.6 all going maintenance only
as of next year, and all the latest versions are 2.7 or 3.X compliant.

V/R,
William


>
> From: scons-dev at scons.org At: Nov 25 2015 21:08:38
> To: scons-dev at scons.org
> Subject: Re: [Scons-dev] Argumentation for Python 2.6 support removal
>
> Because Python 2.,6 is dead and long buried?
>
> On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 11:47 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Do we have any list specific incompatibilities with Python 2.6? What
> > was
> > the main reason for that sign. I am asking because it seems to me
> > that
> > consensus is being reached based on feelings instead of data, and
> > that looks like a death spiral to me.
> >
> >     -- SUPPORT FOR PYTHON VERSIONS BEFORE 2.7 IS NOW DEPRECATED
> >
> >        ***IMPORTANT***: This release is the last version of SCons to
> > support
> >        Python versions older than 2.7.  This release will warn if you
> > are
> >        running on Python 2.6 or older; future releases will probably
> > not
> >        work at all, as we are moving toward supporting Python 3.
> >        Use --warn=no-python-version to suppress the warning if
> > needed.
> >
> --
> Russel.
>
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