On 6 December 2010 18:55, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > 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).
I was :-) Which is why I said "sad" and not "panic" or something. I do realise I'm probably in the minority and that it doesn't justify the burden on everyone in the Python community. > We are not going to take the sources of old releases offline. exactly Regards Floris -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ 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
