> EOL dates of prominent Linux distribution : I think I would need more information than that. Nick's proposal was more specific: when does the vendor stop producing patches? This is a clear criterion, and one that I support.
> RHEL: > https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ My interpretation: Python support until end of production phase 3 (7 years). > Ubuntu: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu_releases#Version_timeline > (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/ubuntu/release-cycle seems to be down) I'd prefer something more official than Wikipedia, though. > SuSe > http://support.novell.com/lifecycle/ My interpretation: Python support until end of Extended support phase (7 years). So by this policy, RHEL and SuSE users would be off worse than with my original proposal (10 years). > Considering the nature of the Fedora project, dropping unsupported fedora > distributions may or may not be helpful for Pyhton and it's users. Again, for Linux, I think the issue is somewhat less critical: in terms of portability and ABI stability, it seems like they manage best (i.e. we have least version-dependent code for Linux in Python, probably because a "Linux version" doesn't exist in the first place, so distributions must provide source and binary compatibility even across vendors, making such support across versions more easy). > Also, it is not clear what to do about distributions/OSs > without any official EOL or life cycles. Here my proposal stands: 10 years, by default. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
