Dropping Support for Python 2.6

Durham Goode durham at fb.com
Tue May 2 15:52:16 EDT 2017


On 4/27/17 12:23 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
> I think the time has come to make a decision about dropping support for
> Python 2.6.
>
> In [1], we already decided that supporting 2.6 on Windows made no sense.
> While I don't think we ever wrote a patch, support for 2.6 on Windows is
> effectively gone.
>
> Also in that thread, Facebook said they will stop caring about Python
> 2.6 no later than 2017-04-30. Facebook runs some internal CI that helps
> flush out upstream bugs. And once they drop 2.6 support on their end, I
> imagine it will be more difficult for them to contribute certain things
> to core because they require 2.7. I'd like to not inconvenience one of
> our largest source of contributions.

 From a FB point of view, we're ok with dropping support now.


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