On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 05:00:19PM +0100, Federico G. Schwindt wrote:
> hi,
>
> is there any reason to keep 2.5 around and specially as the default?
> 2.6 has been stable for some time now and all the ports should work with
> it. itoh, 2.5 is not maintained anymore except for some sporadic security
> updates.
> having to check your ports against 2.5 and 2.6 is time consuming (I'm not
> considering 2.4 as should only used for zope), but unfortunately is required
> for a number of reasons.
> so i propose to remove 2.5 and apply the diff below. this also removes
> mentions to 2.3 and updates the comments to mention other ports hardcoding
> the python version.
> comments? objections? oks?
As others have said, moving to 2.6 makes a lot of sense; but if you are
e.g. developing software in Python, having 2.5 around is useful for
compatibility testing. So ports wouldn't need to be tested against 2.5,
but it shouldn't be deleted either.
Joachim
