Fred Drake wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:16 PM, David Cournapeau > <da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: > >> I don't think python 1.5 should be considered - I happen to contribute >> to scons, which is a build tool in python, and supports all python >> versions from 1.5.2: the 1.5 requirement is a real downside. >> > > I hope 1.x isn't a target for any of these projects. At this point, > I'd consider support for Python 2.4 to be quite generous on the part > of the developers. >
2.4 is a good number because it is supported on many "enterprise" linux OS (RHEL 5 for example), and brings things which are quite useful for building/packaging. > keep in mind that even if something stable is available in 6 > months, it'll be a year or more before adoption becomes widespread > anyway. > It is just one data point, but when scons started deprecating python < 2.2 sometimes last year, I have not seen anyone complaining on the scons ML. David _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
