19 May 2012 14:02
Python 2.5 support?
Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock <at> googlemail.com>
2012-05-19 12:02:35 GMT
2012-05-19 12:02:35 GMT
Hello all, I'm curious how many of you (on the dev list) are still using Python 2.5, and if the time has come to start deprecating our support for it? One good reason would be if it helps us with the Python 3 migration (where currently we are restricted to a subset of features available on or back ported to the older Python releases). Here at work, we are mostly using Python 2.6, although the system default Python on many of our servers is Python 2.4 (CentOS boxes). So dropping Python 2.5 won't cause me personally a problem. A quick review of the main Linux distributions and their current long term support platforms might be prudent at this point. One issue is Jython support, which has to date targetted the C python 2.5 feature set - their new alpha release of Jython 2.7 now brings with it some of the new functionality in C Python 2.6 & 2.7, which is helpful. Regards, Peter
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