<div dir='auto'><div><div><div class="elided-text">On Dec 8, 2022, 13:22, Hal Murray via devel <devel@ntpsec.org> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">
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> I also think that we should drop all Python versions before 3.7 from
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> first-tier support and only continue supporting them if it is not
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Older but still supported versions of Debian and CentOS are still using Python
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2, but it's 2.7 rather than 2.6.
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I think we should keep supporting 2.7. But I don't do much work with Python.
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How much of a pain is supporting Python 2?
<br></p></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto">It is not currently much of a pain to support Python 2. I was trying to phrase it so that if no one is (provably) using it or it became a hassle, we would have an out.</div><div dir="auto"><div><div class="elided-text"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">> Given the lack of complaints, I suspect no one uses 2.6 anymore, which can be
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Is there a supported distro that is still using 2.6?<br></p></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">2.4</div><div dir="auto">- OS4Depot</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2.5</div><div dir="auto">- Maemo Fremantle</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2.6</div><div dir="auto">- Centos 6</div><div dir="auto">- Rosa Server 6.9</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2.7</div><div dir="auto">- AIX</div><div dir="auto">- BlackArch</div><div dir="auto">- Slackware 14.2</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Everything else has Python 3 as an option.</div></div></div>