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

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-dun

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

On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 2:48:30 PM UTC+1, 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? > I didn't object to this on #19984, I mer

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

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? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from t

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

> > Which operating systems / distros would be affected by this (i.e., only > ship with 2.6.x [and probably some older 3.x])? > What I'd seriously worry about here is RHEL 6 and derivatives (CentOS, SciLinux). It only comes with Python 2.6 by default, and while old (came out in 2010), it is

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

John H Palmieri wrote: > 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 com