On 16 Sep 2014, at 07:44, Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Clemens Lang wrote: >> Hi, >> >> ----- On 16 Sep, 2014, at 03:56, Lawrence Velázquez [email protected] >> wrote: >> >>> Is there some overwhelmingly good reason we still provide these, given that >>> 2.7 >>> is still alive and kicking? Can we please stop providing them? >> >> If I were you, I'd set a timeout and if nobody argues that we should keep >> them >> for a good reason, delete them once the timeout has passed. Probably ask >> -users, >> too. >> >> While we're at it, isn't 2.6 unsupported as well? > > Version 2.6 is still useful to allow installing things like > py26-wxpython-2.8 and py27-wxpython-3.0 side-by-side without > conflicts. But I totally support removing python 2.4 and 2.5. > > We could limit the use of 2.6 to ports like the one with wxWidgets and > gradually remove 2.6 from the rest until we retire it completely. (I > wouldn't oppose removing the ports that still depend on wxPython 2.8 a > year or two from now.) > > Mojca > _______________________________________________ > macports-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev I use the Macports Python 2.6 to test Python packages that support it (most do). So my vote would be to remove Python 2.4 and 2.5 (which almost no-one uses and supports any more), but to keep Python 2.6. Christoph _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
