[Twisted-Python] Removing Python 2.6 Support after Twisted 15.1

[Donald Stufft]

> On Mar 20, 2015, at 1:43 AM, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
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>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 5:05 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk <mailto:p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>> wrote:
>> 
>> I honestly wouldn't worry about it too much; RedHat's policies aren't and shouldn't be Twisted's problem. Do what's best for your development.
> 
> The problem is that they kinda are Twisted's problem - in the sense that we want our users to keep upgrading Twisted.  If users are doing this on RHEL6, then maybe there's a reason to keep supporting 2.6.  But if using RHEL just means that they're never upgrading anything then there's no point to continuing maintenance.
> 
> I wish that we had metrics on who was using Twisted where so we could make data-driven decisions about stuff like this :-\.
> 
> -glyph
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I can give you access to some logs that you can parse, assuming they are downloading with pip or easy_install. It’ll tell you what versions of Python people are using.
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