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[BJ Dierkes <derks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The incompatibilities with Python 2.6 -> 2.7 are pretty minimal, and most modern software targets 2.7+.  If nothing notable depends on python26, then I am fully in support of dropping python26 packages in favor of python27, which people should be using anyway.

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BJ Dierkes
Data Folk Labs, LLC

From: Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply: Ben Harper <ben.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Date: September 18, 2014 at 1:31:22 PM
To: ius-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ius-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Subject:  Re: [Ius-community] future of python26-lxml and other python26 modules  

On 09/15/2014 11:54 AM, Ben Harper wrote:  
> Greetings,  
>  
> With the new release of the lxml module[0], it now requires a newer  
> version of libxslt(-devel) than what Red Hat provides in EL 5.  
> Typically, IUS does not want to build a whole chain of dependencies,  
> as we want our packages built off stock EL. We have had made  
> exceptions in the past if it is worth the effort. Please note if IUS  
> were to build a libxslt27u package, manually steps would been needed  
> to upgrade libxslt to libxslt27u as IUS packages do not obsolete stock  
> packages.  
>  
> I am trying to determine if there is still a need for this package.  
> Since Python 2.6 has been EOL'd since October 29, 2013[1], should we  
> just EOL all python26 modules (python26-elixir, python26-jsonschema,  
> python26-lxml and python26-memcached)?  
>  
> Please let us know if you use any of the python26 modules, if you feel  
> we should EOL them or if you have other ideas on how we should proceed.  
>  
> Thanks,  
> Ben and the rest of the IUS covedev team  
>  
>  
> [0] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/3.4.0  
> [1] https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.9/  
>  
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We are going to give a two week window for comments. If we don't hear  
anything by September 29th, we will proceed with EOLing the python26  
modules.  


Thanks,  
Ben and the rest of the IUS covedev team  

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