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

[Chris Jones]

On 11/08/16 20:40, Fred Wright wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
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>> 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.

On the other hand, whats the rationale for keeping 2.6, given 2.7 is the 
official upstream production version of the 2.x series. What use case 
requires 2.6 and cannot move to 2.7 ?

Chris

>
> 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
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