[tahoe-dev] let's stop supporting versions of Python other than v2.7 on Windows

[Jimmy Tang]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Brian Warner <warner at lothar.com> wrote:

> On 7/18/11 1:35 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
>
> > By "supporting" here, I mean going out of our way to provide binary
> > eggs of dependencies, and actively soliciting people to run
> > buildslaves.
> >
> > Let's do those things only for Python 2.7, and not for other versions
> > of Python, on Windows. Also let's maintain all of our docs describing
> > Python 2.7 on Windows.
>

I didn't think there would be many window users who would be too willing to
build stuff themselves. But having one supported version with one set of
instructions sounds good (I use python 2.6 and 2.7 on my old XP installs
with tahoe myself)


>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> > As for what versions of Python we support on all other platforms than
> > Windows, I propose that we continue our long-standing tradition of
> > supporting everything from Python 2.4.4 up to 2.7.
>
> Also good by me. I'm slowly building a list of things we could clean up
> if we were to drop e.g. 2.4 or 2.5 support, but it isn't very big yet.
> My biggest motivating factor for supporting a given python release is
> which large distributions still ship with it. Ubuntu's oldest supported
> LTS is Hardy (8.04) with python2.5.2, Debian's stable (squeeze) is
> py2.6.6, and OS-X (as of yesterday)'s oldest is Snow Leopard (10.6) with
> py2.6.1 .
>
> So let's defer the py2.4 question for another six months. Ubuntu will
> support Hardy (on server) until mid-2013, and after that I'd be happy to
> drop py2.5 support.
>
>
I would be happy to see that 2.4 support was kept until RHEL5 is
discontinued, I've a bunch of RHEL5 clones running in a lab providing me
with some *storage* for backups.

Thanks,
Jimmy

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