2008/10/11 Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm working on 2.5 compatibility branch right now. Due to incompatible >> changes, I suggest that we say we don't provide --pyversion option any >> more and simply compile 2.5 compatible interpreter. I don't really see >> benefits of providing 2.4 right now (after a brief discussion with >> Armin). >> >> If anyone objects, please do that now. > > Just a curious question --- what kind of features are python2.4 only > that doesn't work in python2.5? I though that except hashing, > python2.5 is backwards compatible.
New style exceptions break a few things. A few deprecated things were removed -- OverflowWarning, for example. The idea that Python 3 was the first release of Python that isn't backwards compatible is slightly misleading :) Cheers, mwh _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
