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diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 0543e1a..4b9f38a 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@ oauth2client ============ +.. note:: oauth2client is now deprecated. No more features will be added to the +libraries and the core team is turning down support. We recommend you use +`google-auth`_ and `oauthlib`_. For more details on the deprecation, see `oauth2client deprecation`_. + +.. _google-auth: https://google-auth.readthedocs.io +.. _oauthlib: http://oauthlib.readthedocs.io/ +.. _oauth2client deprecation: https://google-auth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/oauth2client-deprecation.html + *making OAuth2 just a little less painful* ``oauth2client`` makes it easy to interact with OAuth2-protected resources, @@ -107,18 +115,24 @@ contributor license agreement. Supported Python Versions ------------------------- -We support Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3+. (Whatever this file says, the truth is +We support Python 2.7 and 3.4+. (Whatever this file says, the truth is always represented by our `tox.ini`_). .. _tox.ini: https://github.com/google/oauth2client/blob/master/tox.ini We explicitly decided to support Python 3 beginning with version -3.3. Reasons for this include: +3.4. Reasons for this include: * Encouraging use of newest versions of Python 3 * Following the lead of prominent `open-source projects`_ * Unicode literal support which allows for a cleaner codebase that works in both Python 2 and Python 3 +* Prominent projects like `django`_ have `dropped support`_ for earlier + versions (3.3 support dropped in December 2015, and 2.6 support + `dropped`_ in September 2014) .. _open-source projects: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/ .. _Unicode literal support: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0414/ +.. _django: https://docs.djangoproject.com/ +.. _dropped support: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/faq/install/#what-python-version-can-i-use-with-django +.. _dropped: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/faq/install/#what-python-version-can-i-use-with-django |