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

[Christopher Jones]

> On 12 Aug 2016, at 11:30 pm, Fred Wright <fw at fwright.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Chris Jones wrote:
>> On 11/08/16 20:40, Fred Wright wrote:
> [...]
>>> 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 ?
> 
> Testing code against 2.6 (among others), because it's intended to run on a
> wide range of platforms, and one wants to make as few assumptions as
> possible about what Python version(s) the end user might have installed.
> Some distros lag *way* behind in versions of various things, including
> Python.
> 
> If the python.org folks had their way, all 2.x versions would be
> eradicated, but there were too many pitchforks at the gates to let that
> happen. :-)

I agree there is no way to migrate completely to 3.x, but I am still not really convinced keeping both the 2.6 and 2.7 versions in MacPorts is worth the effort. 2.6 needs to be dropped sometime...

Chris

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