[ClusterLabs] Proposed change for 1.1.16: ending python 2.6 compatibility

[Digimer]

On 05/07/16 01:31 PM, Ken Gaillot wrote:
> As you may be aware, python 3 is a significant, backward-compatible
> restructuring of the python language. Most development of the python 2
> series has ended, and support for python 2 will completely end in 2020.
> 
> Pacemaker currently uses python only in its test suites. At some point,
> we may convert a few existing Pacemaker-provided resource agents and
> fence agents to python as well.
> 
> Currently, Pacemaker's python code is compatible with python 2.6 and
> 2.7. We definitely need to start moving toward python 3 compatibility.
> It is possible to support both 2.7 and 3 with the same code, but we need
> to lose compatibility with 2.6. (Maintaining a separate branch of code
> for 2.6 would not be worth the effort.)
> 
> So, I propose that Pacemaker stop supporting python 2.6 as of the next
> version (1.1.16, expected sometime in the fall or winter). Not all our
> python code is likely to be python3-compatible by that time, but we can
> start moving in that direction.
> 
> If anyone has any reasons to do this differently, let me know. As this
> only affects the test suites currently, and most Linux distributions
> have stopped supporting python 2.6 already, I expect more "what took you
> so long" responses than "slow down" ;-)

If this can be done without breaking RHEL 6 deployments (and it sounds
like it wouldn't be an issue), then I say go for it. A key to good HA is
simplicity, and maintaining two branches (or getting stuck on a dead-end
branch) seems to go against that ethos.

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