On Dec 8, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Ned Deily wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2012-12-9 10:31 , Aljaž Srebrnič wrote: >>> Hello list! >>> I'd like to know what's the policy with maintaining py2[4-6]- ports… >>> Shouldn't we gradually drop support for older python versions? >> >> With the unified portgroup there's almost no extra effort involved in >> having them. I don't think there's any reason to drop them until >> upstream does.
Agreed. > WRT Python itself: Python 2.4.x and 2.5.x are no longer supported in any > way by the PSF Python project (www.python.org). Python 2.6.x is in > security-fix-only mode until October 2013. Python 2.7 is current and in > an extended maintenance mode period (bug fixes, security fixes, no new > features); no date has yet been established for when it will move to > security-fix-only mode. Python 2.7.x is the final release series for > Python 2. My take its up to the maintainer, if they want to maintain Python modules for older releases, they can. I don't think we should go out of the way to remove support for older Python releases. Regardless of when Python 2.7.x moves to security-fix-mode, I strongly feel we should maintain that ongoingly for a long long time. Blair _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
