How to discontinue ports completely (py26 deprecation) ...

[Fred Wright]

On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> On Aug 10, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Fred Wright <fw at fwright.net> wrote:
>
> > I don't consider Python 2.6 to be "cruft".  Developers need many
> > versions of Python installed for testing, and that includes any
> > packages that are also needed.  It's annoying to have to create local
> > versions of portfiles solely to add versions that are missing for no
> > substantive reason.
>
> The substantive reason is that every additional version of CPython we
> support is a maintenance burden, especially one that saw its last
> feature release 6 years ago and its last bugfix release nearly 3 years
> ago.

Well, leaving something alone that's working just fine is hardly much of a
maintenance burden.

BTW, there's some erroneous information that making code compatible with
both Python 2 and Python 3 requires 2.7.  I have yet to encounter any
issues with "polyglot" code per se on Python 2.6.  Anything earlier is
definitely problematic, however.

Fred Wright