Re: Some (long awaited?) suggestions to deprecate Python 2 and C++ 03 support

[Robbie Gemmell <ro...@gmail.com>]

Sounds reasonable to me.

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 18:43, Andrew Stitcher <as...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Python 2 has finally been declared dead (as in unsupported) by its
> upstream. And every platform that is widely used has a version of
> python 3 available. From what I can tell a reasonable earliest version
> of python would now be 3.6 as 3.9 is out and 3.10 is not too far off.
>
> C++11 is now 10 years old pretty much and similarly every widely used
> platform has a compiler with C++11 support.
>
> [Yes, this is pretty much dictated by the recent withdrawal in support
> of RHEL 6 which was the last OS which didn't have these things
>
> We have already removed support for python 2.6 now that RHEL 6 is no
> longer important - everything else has at least python 2.7.]
>
> So I propose that the Proton 0.34 release is the last one that supports
> python 2.7 and C++03. We will remove support for them and clean up
> somewhat immediately after that release and move the minimum supported
> versions as C++11 and Python 3.6 for release 0.35 and on.
>
> Thoughts, sighs of relief, disagreement...?
>
> Andrew
>
>
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