On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:54:59AM -0800, Istvan Albert wrote:
-> On Jan 28, 8:35?am, "C. Titus Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
-> 
-> > time. ?No strong reason against it, though, other than sheer
-> > conservatism... ?I'm also not sure it's 2.2 compatible.
-> 
-> I just tested this, code generated by pyrex 0.9.8 won't compile with
-> python 2.2.3
-> (but the original C files will). Since probably none of us is actually
-> using old versions of python,  there is no way to really know what the
-> actual compatibility status is.

I have a new employee starting, Justin Flynn, who will be setting up
(and more importantly, maintaining!) buildbots for the different
versions of Python and pygr.  So hopefully we should get a view on this
soon, and be able to keep an eye on it.

-> Data analysis is not unlike running high performance games, you're
-> supposed to upgrade to reasonably recent drivers etc. so it might be
-> best to make the backward compatibility a moving target say -2
-> versions down from the latest python version

I agree.  I think a good target is whatever the main distros are
supporting, as that's what people will generally be using.  Mac OS X now
supports 2.4, for example.

Chris, I don't remember the rationale for 2.2 (other than "we want to
maintain backwards compatibility as long as possible").  Anything more
specific?

cheers,
--titus
-- 
C. Titus Brown, [email protected]

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