In article <[email protected]>, Blair Zajac <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 8, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Ned Deily wrote: > > 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.
Certainly it's up to any project to determine what they want to support. Keep in mind, though, that the older releases, like 2.4.x and 2.5.x, were retired or in security-fix-only mode prior to the release of current OS X and Xcode versions, so the last upstream versions are missing fixes added to current Python releases to handle newer compilers, deprecated APIs, 64-bit support etc. Apple itself has been burned by that, i.e. the broken system Python 2.5 currently shipped with 10.8. You'll need to continue to maintain and test your own patches to provide support for obsolete versions on newer OS releases. -- Ned Deily, [email protected] _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
