Re: [Discuss OpenCPI] Python 3.4 Requirement

From: Brian Padalino <bpadalino_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 20 17:54:47 -0500

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 4:49 PM Nathan Knowles <nathan.knowles_at_cnftech.com>
wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> That decision was made in the context of supporting CentOS 7/6 without
> considering other more up-to-date OS's (Ubuntu for example). In hindsight
> it was a poor decision made by me and will be addressed in v1.7.0. Your
> workaround is good and is what I would suggest to others using a newer
> version of Python 3.
>

Excellent, thanks!


>
> Since we still support CentOS 6 and it is limited to Python3.4 (unless
> python is installed not using yum, which is not supported), our python
> scripts will not use newer features added after 3.4 until we drop support
> for CentOS 6. CentOS 6 is EOL/EOS this year in November. We plan to add
> support for CentOS 8 and drop support for CentOS 6 before that time.
>
> Sorry for the hassle.
>

No need to apologize. I just wasn't sure if there was a deeper reasoning.

Thanks for the quick response!

Brian


Received on Thu Mar 05 2020 - 22:54:47 CST