Am 06.12.2010 14:40, schrieb Floris Bruynooghe: > On 6 December 2010 09:18, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >>> 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. > > How about max(EOL, 10years)? That sounds like it could be a useful guideline. > > (Personally I'd be sad to see Solaris 8 go in the next few years)
I guess we'll be sorry, then: under that policy, max(EOL, 10years) comes out as "not supported" (not sure whether you were aware of that). Of course, with these old systems, I really wonder: why do they need current Python releases? 2.7 will remain available and maintained for some time, and 3.1 will at least see security fixes for some more time - something that the base system itself doesn't receive anymore. So if you needed a Python release for Solaris 8, you could just use Python 2.3, no? We are not going to take the sources of old releases offline. 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
