On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 10:18 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > > 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).
(...) > So by this policy, RHEL and SuSE users would be off worse than with > my original proposal (10 years). Red Hat continues to provide patches for RHEL within the "Extended Life Cycle" (years 8, 9 and 10), but it's an optional add-on. So another interpretation of the above with Nick's proposal could be 10 years on RHEL. (though obviously I'm biased in favor of RHEL) Approaching this from another angle: please do add me to the "nosy" on any compatibility bugs with running latest python code on RHEL. I'm also looking into getting RHEL buildbot machines, FWIW. > > 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). The other compat issues are in the toolchain: e.g. very recent versions of gcc . In downstream Fedora, we tend to be amongst the first to run into new compilation warnings (and, occasionally, "exciting" code-generation bugs...) But this tends to be the opposite kind of problem: beginning of life, rather than end-of-life, and these sorts of things will need fixing for every Linux build eventually. FWIW, I'm trying to keep Fedora's "system" python 2 and python 3 builds as up-to-date as reasonable, so Fedora users will (I hope) be running fairly recent code python as is. We have 2.7 as /usr/bin/python as of F14, for instance. Hope this is helpful Dave _______________________________________________ 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
