I am still working on projects based on Python2.4 in commercial environments (limitation of OS: Solaris 5.10). And I don't think this will be changed soon..
2011/12/21 Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> > > On 21 Dec 2011, at 12:42, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > > On Dec 21, 2011, at 07:16 AM, Chris Withers wrote: > > > >> What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? > > > > FWIW, Ubuntu dropped 2.5 quite a while ago. The next LTS (long term > support) > > release in April 2012 will have only Python 2.7 (and 3.2). The currently > > in-development next Debian release currently has only Python 2.6, 2.7, > and 3.2 > > with 2.7 as the default. > > > > For my own code, Python 2.6 is the minimum, and I'm seeing more upstream > > libraries target 2.6 as a minimum also (e.g. dbus-python). When > projects say > > they still need to target older Pythons, RHEL support is usually cited > as the > > reason. > > > For "production work" I've been on 2.6 for a while and will soon be > switching to 2.7 (I do my development on 2.7). > > For my libraries I'm still supporting 2.4. The *major* syntax feature you > lose by targeting 2.4 is the with statement, so it will be nice to drop 2.4 > support. The next releases of mock and unittest2 will still support 2.4, > but the ones after that will be 2.5+. > > Thankfully tox makes testing across multiple versions (and > implementations) easy. > > All the best, > > Michael Foord > > > > > Cheers, > > -Barry > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/fuzzyman%40voidspace.org.uk > > > > > -- > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ > > > May you do good and not evil > May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others > May you share freely, never taking more than you give. > -- the sqlite blessing > http://www.sqlite.org/different.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/jwzxgo%40gmail.com >
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