Re: [Python-Dev] LSB: Selection of a Python version

2006-12-05 Thread Anthony Baxter
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 17:30, Martin v. Löwis wrote: People at the meeting specifically said whether security patches would still be applied to older releases, and for how many older releases. Linux distributors are hesitant to make commitments to maintain a software package if they know

Re: [Python-Dev] LSB: Selection of a Python version

2006-12-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Anthony Baxter schrieb: So I think a public statement that we will support 2.4 with security patches for a while longer (and perhaps with security patches *only*) would be a good thing - independent of the LSB, actually. Well, I don't know what sort of public statement you want to issue,

Re: [Python-Dev] LSB: Selection of a Python version

2006-12-05 Thread Neal Norwitz
On 12/5/06, Anthony Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I think a public statement that we will support 2.4 with security patches for a while longer (and perhaps with security patches *only*) would be a good thing - independent of the LSB, actually. Well, I don't know what sort of public

Re: [Python-Dev] LSB: Selection of a Python version

2006-12-05 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Neal Norwitz schrieb: I think we should document our intentions in the release PEP (or some other PEP possibly). Should we state that we will support version x.y for N years after initial release or based on version numbers such as x.(y-N) where y is the current version and N is a small

[Python-Dev] LSB: Selection of a Python version

2006-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
At the LSB meeting, there was a brief discussion of what Python version should be incorporated into LSB. This is more an issue if ABI compatibility for the C ABI is desired, but even if only script portability is a goal, application developers will need to know what APIs they have available in LSB

Re: [Python-Dev] LSB: Selection of a Python version

2006-12-04 Thread Neal Norwitz
What, if any, impact do you think the LSB should have wrt maintaining 2.4? n On 12/4/06, Martin v. Löwis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the LSB meeting, there was a brief discussion of what Python version should be incorporated into LSB. This is more an issue if ABI compatibility for the C ABI

Re: [Python-Dev] LSB: Selection of a Python version

2006-12-04 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Neal Norwitz schrieb: What, if any, impact do you think the LSB should have wrt maintaining 2.4? People at the meeting specifically said whether security patches would still be applied to older releases, and for how many older releases. Linux distributors are hesitant to make commitments to