On Dec 26, 2007 2:36 PM, Alex Holkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 26, 2007 11:51 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > what is your strategy with supporting python2.4? We use python 2.4 or > > later in SymPy, the same > > way as pyglet does. Many people still use python 2.4, for example > > Debian uses python2.4 as default (although it's a release goal to > > switch to python2.4), > > That's not very ambitious ;-) (I assume you meant to write > switching to 2.5?)
Yes. :) > > so I don't want to switch to later versions. > > Python 2.5 has some cool features, mainly relative imports. > > Yes, keeping 2.4/2.5 compatibility is pretty simple; the only issues > I've had are avoiding decorators. Decorators? Stuff like @classmethod? This works in 2.4. > > > Do you have some estimate, how many pyglet users still use python2.4? > > The only numbers I can give you are the pyglet .egg download > statistics from googlecode: > > 60 pyglet-1.0beta3-py2.5.egg > 3 pyglet-1.0beta2-py2.5.egg > 10 pyglet-1.0beta1-py2.5.egg > 7 pyglet-1.0alpha2-py2.4.egg I assume you meant pyglet-1.0alpha2-py2.5.egg here? ^^^ > 45 pyglet-1.0alpha1-py2.5.egg > > 2 pyglet-1.0beta3-py2.4.egg > 1 pyglet-1.0beta2-py2.4.egg > 2 pyglet-1.0beta1-py2.4.egg > 6 pyglet-1.0alpha2-py2.4.egg > 28 pyglet-1.0alpha1-py2.4.egg > > From alpha2 onwards the .egg files have not been published on the > pyglet.org download page or the googlecode project "featured > downloads" links; so most users of these will be using ez_setup. This > population is dwarfed by downloads of the Windows and OS X installers, > and the source distro (over 1000 in total for beta2; beta3 is > currently around 700). So I don't think anything can be read from the > egg numbers. > > Richard: Python version should be added to the PyWeek poll, especially > as the next one is due around 3.0 beta time (and maybe 2.6). I recall > most entries being 2.4 compatible but there were some 2.5-only ones > using the old-style class parentheses. Right, not much can be read out of this, but aparently people still download it for 2.4. So I assume you are going to support python2.4 for some time? Ondrej --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
