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[Scott Moser <smoser@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for raising this.
This is the sort of feedback I was after.
I'm not immediately opposed to supporting sles 12 in the way that we have
centos 6 for python2.6.

At what point do you think it would be reasonable to drop the 3.4 support
then?  Am I correct that you already have the next release of SLES (SLES
15) available.  I'm guessing it has a 3.6 or greater.

Perhaps we could say 3.4 support will be held for as long as python 2?
That'd mean users looking for new features from cloud-init would have had
almost 2 years to move to sles 15.

thoughts?


On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:26 PM Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 08/28/2018 12:19 PM, Scott Moser wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > ## Python 3 versions. ##
> > cloud-init supports Python 3 version 3.5+
>
> Any chance we can drop this to 3.4+?
>
> SLES 12 has Python 3.4 available. General support for SLES 12 (currently
> using a Python 2 build) ends in 2024. Freezing the cloud-init version
> for 4 years on SLES 12 is a really long time. The other option is being
> more or less on my own with backports and that's not a great outlook. If
> you'd be willing to support Python 3.4 and greater that would make those
> issues go away.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
>
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