Re: [sage-devel] Abandon Python 2.6 support?

2016-06-13 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 3:16 PM, William Stein wrote: > This is only for our build system / bootstrapping scripts, not for sage > itself. Ah, I missed that part in the discussion... Sorry for the noise! -- Fernando Perez (@fperez_org; http://fperez.org) fperez.net-at-gmail: mailing lists onl

Re: [sage-devel] Abandon Python 2.6 support?

2016-06-13 Thread William Stein
On Monday, June 13, 2016, Fernando Perez wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Erik Bray > wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 4:28 PM, William Stein > > wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Saturday, June 11, 2016, Volker Braun > > wrote: >> >> >> >> Note that we can trivially support Python 2.6 just b

Re: [sage-devel] Abandon Python 2.6 support?

2016-06-13 Thread Fernando Perez
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Erik Bray wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 4:28 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > > > > On Saturday, June 11, 2016, Volker Braun wrote: > >> > >> Note that we can trivially support Python 2.6 just by vendoring > >> argparse.py. Make user's lives easier or save a fe

Re: [sage-devel] Abandon Python 2.6 support?

2016-06-13 Thread Erik Bray
On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Erik Bray wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 4:28 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> >> On Saturday, June 11, 2016, Volker Braun wrote: >>> >>> Note that we can trivially support Python 2.6 just by vendoring >>> argparse.py. Make user's lives easier or save a few kilo

Re: [sage-devel] Abandon Python 2.6 support?

2016-06-13 Thread Erik Bray
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 4:28 PM, William Stein wrote: > > > On Saturday, June 11, 2016, Volker Braun wrote: >> >> Note that we can trivially support Python 2.6 just by vendoring >> argparse.py. Make user's lives easier or save a few kilobytes of disk space? >> How is this not a total slam-dunk?--

Re: [sage-devel] Abandon Python 2.6 support?

2016-06-11 Thread William Stein
On Saturday, June 11, 2016, Volker Braun wrote: > Note that we can trivially support Python 2.6 just by vendoring > argparse.py. Make user's lives easier or save a few kilobytes of disk > space? How is this not a total slam-dunk?-- > Huge +1 > You received this message because you are subscr

[sage-devel] Abandon Python 2.6 support?

2016-06-10 Thread John H Palmieri
Building Sage requires a system installation of Python. So far Python 2.6 has been good enough, and when changes were made to inadvertently break this (one as recent as March: see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/sage-devel/1hbXSJFWDZw/NNP9L2V9DQAJ), people complained. Now the plan is to