Thomas A. F. Thorne: > Dropping Python 2 Support > > (or more specifically moving up to python2.7 from python2.4 on a > maintenance branch and dropping python3 support from master)
The actual suggestion was to drop python _2.2_, but leave the rest. There was nothing on the maintenance branch that required newer... > Having looked into starting a 3.2 release or 3.2_maintenance branch I > stumbled into the https://github.com/distcc/distcc/pull/177 request. > Under that request the creation of the 3.2 maintenance branch is > suggested and it is proposed that said branch will be used to maintain > some support for Python2.7 for as long as it seems necessary. The half-way option (drop the really old stuff, keep the default system /usr version of python on enterprise linux releases) was in: https://github.com/distcc/distcc/pull/182 The master branch can stay as it is. That is, only support python3 but not any variant of python2 (2.7). Mostly for "non-pump" mode. > The main work would continue on master, with the creation of a 3.3.# > release in the near future. The master branch (and therefore the 3.3 > releases onwards) would require python3. Sure, I have no problem with that. I'm not sure _what_ development that was planned on "master" (that required python3), but it's there already. I also suggest getting off the "3.2rc1" track, and releasing real 3.#.# Is there anything on master that needs a 3.3 release ? The swift stuff ? i.e. supposedly you would also do a maintenance branch for 3.3 as well. (if you decide to fork it off from master, that is). And then merge. Something like a road map would be nice, to see what the difference is. Maybe 3.2 should have been forked even earlier in history, I dunno... But it would be nice to do another "stable" release after distcc-3.1. Which is from 2008 already. Many stay off the distcc-3.2rc1, because of the silly release suffix. And that was back in 2011 ? /Anders __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/distcc