Not Python 2.6 compatible

[kynan]

The core_types extension module is not compatible with Python 2.6 due to the use of capsules, which were introduced in 2.7.

A possible workaround would be introducing a compatibility header that redefines PyCapsule C API calls in terms of PyCObject.

[kynan]

Fixed in c2415d3

[kynan]

Turns out this isn't quite fixed yet. For reasons I can't quite tell the build on 2.6 still fails.

[wence-]

I sort of don't care about this. 2.7 is not /that/ new. Is there a compelling reason to tie ourselves in knots to support 2.6? I'd be more worried about forward compatibility to 3.4.

[kynan]

There's certainly no reason to care about 2.6 other than deploying to clusters. I agree that we should rather start worrying about forward compatibility.

[ggorman]

I believe the future for deployment on clusters and supercomputers is via python platforms such as Anaconda. This is resolving many ongoing python/numpy/scipy issues for us on HECToR/ARCHER. In addition, Andy Terrel and Continuum are working with Cray to sort out scalability etc. so this approach is gaining momentum.

ie - we really don’t care about 2.6 etc.

[kynan]

Yes, if we could have a recent Anaconda distribution on HPC clusters that would be fantastic. With that 2.6 would not be a concern, but we should keep forward compatibility in mind.

[wence-]

Closing this, since we've decided we don't care enough about 2.6