Russell Owen <ro...@uw.edu> wrote: > I agree that a policy is a good idea, and I suggest it be primarily based on > age, since we cannot assume Apple will release new versions of the OS on a > given timeline. > > I personally think too early to drop support for MacOS X 10.6 and am on the > edge about 10.5.
I run one 10.5 machine, three 10.6 machines, and 5+ 10.7+ machines right now. I have a perfectly fine and fast Mac Pro which can't even be upgraded past 10.7. So using Apple's OS release numbers as the gating factor might be a problem. I'd be happy to drop pre-built binary installers for 10.6, but that's different from dropping all support for it. Bill > -- Russell > > On Sep 18, 2013, at 5:54 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > > Am 18.09.13 08:43, schrieb Gregory P. Smith: > >> Just drop support for 10.6 with Python 3.4. Problem solved. People on > >> that old of a version of the OS can build their own Python 3.4 or do the > >> right thing and upgrade or just install Linux. > >> > >> This isn't Windows. Compiler tool chains are freely available for the > >> legacy platform. We don't need to maintain such a long legacy support > >> tail there ourselves. > > > > I don't mind such a decision in principle, but also in principle, I'd > > prefer if there was a pre-set policy to decide this question, documented > > in PEP 11. > > > > Here a piece of OSX release history: > > - 10.5: October 2007 > > * 10.5.8: August 2009 > > - 10.6: August 2009 > > * 10.6.8: July 2011 > > - 10.7: July 2011 > > * 10.7.5: July 2012 > > - 10.8: July 2012 > > > > So possible policy that would now exclude 10.6 for binary installers > > would be: > > > > - only the two latest feature releases are supported > > - only feature releases younger than 3 years are supported > > > > Note that a separate policy should be added to decide whether support > > for older versions is actively removed from source code (or equally > > bug fixes for old versions are not accepted anymore). > > > > Regards, > > Martin > > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/bill%40janssen.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
