Re: Fwd: Dropping Support for Python 2.6

2017-08-17 Thread Mathias De Maré
(Adding Mercurial-devel mailing list, as I'm not sure if anyone is actually using mercurial-infrastructure@) On 08-08-17 09:21, Mathias De Maré wrote: On 04-05-17 16:36, Anton Shestakov wrote: On Tue, 2 May 2017 20:30:07 +0200 Pierre-Yves David wrote: So, we are already operating a repos

Re: Dropping Support for Python 2.6

2017-05-04 Thread Anton Shestakov
On Tue, 2 May 2017 20:30:07 +0200 Pierre-Yves David wrote: > So, we are already operating a repository at: > >https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/ > > And we already have all the necessary bits in our current make file to > create and update it such repository. As pointed in the previous

Re: Dropping Support for Python 2.6

2017-05-02 Thread Durham Goode
On 4/27/17 12:23 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: I think the time has come to make a decision about dropping support for Python 2.6. In [1], we already decided that supporting 2.6 on Windows made no sense. While I don't think we ever wrote a patch, support for 2.6 on Windows is effectively gone.

Re: Dropping Support for Python 2.6

2017-05-02 Thread Pierre-Yves David
On 04/27/2017 09:23 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: I think the time has come to make a decision about dropping support for Python 2.6. Seems like a good idea overall. Let me add some details on the step we took to drop 2.4 In [1], we already decided that supporting 2.6 on Windows made no sense

Re: Dropping Support for Python 2.6

2017-04-28 Thread Augie Fackler
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:23:18PM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: > I think the time has come to make a decision about dropping support for > Python 2.6. > > In [1], we already decided that supporting 2.6 on Windows made no sense. > While I don't think we ever wrote a patch

Re: Dropping Support for Python 2.6

2017-04-27 Thread Alex Gaynor
distros.) > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Alex Gaynor wrote: > >> FWIW, RHEL 6 supports SCL (Software Collection Libraries) so it's >> possible to get a Python2.7 _from Red Hat_. >> >> Alex >> >> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Gregory

Re: Dropping Support for Python 2.6

2017-04-27 Thread Gregory Szorc
12:26 PM, Alex Gaynor wrote: > FWIW, RHEL 6 supports SCL (Software Collection Libraries) so it's possible > to get a Python2.7 _from Red Hat_. > > Alex > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Gregory Szorc > wrote: > >> I think the time has come to make a decision abo

Re: Dropping Support for Python 2.6

2017-04-27 Thread Alex Gaynor
FWIW, RHEL 6 supports SCL (Software Collection Libraries) so it's possible to get a Python2.7 _from Red Hat_. Alex On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > I think the time has come to make a decision about dropping support for > Python 2.6. > > In [1], we alr

Dropping Support for Python 2.6

2017-04-27 Thread Gregory Szorc
I think the time has come to make a decision about dropping support for Python 2.6. In [1], we already decided that supporting 2.6 on Windows made no sense. While I don't think we ever wrote a patch, support for 2.6 on Windows is effectively gone. Also in that thread, Facebook said they

Re: Dropping support for Python 2.6 on Windows

2017-03-16 Thread Simon Farnsworth
On 16/03/2017 10:14, Augie Fackler wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:54:27AM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: There is a brewing discussion about the future of Python 2.6 in Mercurial. I'd like to start with what I think will be an easy proposal: officially dropping support for 2.6 on Windows. I'm

Re: Dropping support for Python 2.6 on Windows

2017-03-16 Thread Siddharth Agarwal
On 3/16/17 09:54, Gregory Szorc wrote: There is a brewing discussion about the future of Python 2.6 in Mercurial. I'd like to start with what I think will be an easy proposal: officially dropping support for 2.6 on Windows. Sounds reasonable to me. First, I think dropping 2.6 on Windows doe

Re: Dropping support for Python 2.6 on Windows

2017-03-16 Thread Augie Fackler
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 09:54:27AM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: > There is a brewing discussion about the future of Python 2.6 in Mercurial. > I'd like to start with what I think will be an easy proposal: officially > dropping support for 2.6 on Windows. I'm in favor of this. Perhaps also sound the

Dropping support for Python 2.6 on Windows

2017-03-16 Thread Gregory Szorc
There is a brewing discussion about the future of Python 2.6 in Mercurial. I'd like to start with what I think will be an easy proposal: officially dropping support for 2.6 on Windows. First, I think dropping 2.6 on Windows doesn't really buy us anything significant. 2.6 and 2.7 build with the sam