++1 I actually thought we had dropped support for this a long time ago On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 7:46 PM Brock Noland <br...@phdata.io> wrote:
> +1 > > Even if it wasn't easy to install, for our part, our customer based is > heavily RH7, at least 80%, which is likely part of a broader trend. > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Adar Lieber-Dembo > <a...@cloudera.com.invalid > > wrote: > > > While working on yet another Python 2.6 compatibility fix for the Kudu > > Python wrapper, I started to wonder whether the time is right to drop > > Python 2.6 compatibility. The motivation is pretty simple: more and > > more of the Python world is dropping support for 2.6, requiring us to > > pin to increasingly older dependencies [1] and use various workarounds > > [2] during environment set up. > > > > Why do we support Python 2.6 in the first place? Because that's the > > Python version shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and many Kudu > > users are still using RHEL6 or one of its derivatives (like CentOS 6). > > However, it seems like it's not so difficult to install Python 2.7 > > these days: > > > > For RHEL6: > > 1. Make sure that you have access to the Software Collections Library [3] > > 2. sudo yum install python27 > > 3. source /opt/rh/python27/enable > > > > For CentOS6: > > 1. sudo yum install centos-release-scl (enable the Software Collections > > Library) > > 2. sudo yum install scl-utils (install the Software Collections > utilities) > > 3. sudo yum install python27 > > 4. source /opt/rh/python27/enable > > > > What do you guys think? Anyone have any experience taking a project > > through such a transition? > > > > 1. https://github.com/apache/kudu/blob/master/python/requirements.txt > > 2. https://github.com/apache/kudu/blob/master/build- > > support/jenkins/build-and-test.sh#L437 > > 3. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/472793 > > > -- Jordan Birdsell Principal Solutions Architect, phData 678-670-7316 | phData.io <https://www.phdata.io/> <jbirds...@phdata.io> <https://github.com/jtbirdsell> <https://twitter.com/jordanbirdsell> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-birdsell-25985732/>
