Good thinking, I didn't think about that. It doesn't hold everywhere, for example users of NanoHUB <http://nanohub.org>, which is a major research service, are forced to use Python 2.5, but it does hold in most places I would guess, so that tilts the scale a little bit towards ditching 2.5. Thanks!
And hopefully NanoHUB would upgrade to Debian 6 already... On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Yishai Beeri <[email protected]> wrote: > My 2 cents: > > Is GarlicSim used in production / deployment settings? Or is it more a tool > that runs in a "development" or "research" state of mind, e.g. is not > mission critical, and if it crashes during the night no-one gets pushed out > of bed? > > If the former, the people using it will have much less say about which > distro and version they run it on, and hence you should try to stick with > 2.5; if the latter, your users can easily ensure they have 2.6, and have > (almost) no external constraints dictating an older version. > > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:26:03 +0300, cool-RR <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's a bummer. But I see that RHEL 6 has Python 2.6, so people who use >> RHEL 6 would be okay. Also fortunately the new Debian comes with 2.6. (I >> was >> a bit disappointed that they didn't go for 2.7... But they seem to be a >> conservative bunch.) >> >> Do I care? I don't know... I'll think about it a bit. On one hand I really >> want to ditch Python 2.5, it will make me much happier and solve the bug >> that I'm working on (in the `module_tasting` module...), it will make the >> code prettier in various places and will save me from having to test on >> Python 2.5 all the time. On the other hand if it will prevent some people >> from using GarlicSim, that would be a bummer... So I don't know, I need to >> think about it. >> >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:19 PM, guy keren <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> anyone developing software on and supporting RHEL 5.X (and CentOS 5.X) - >>> works with python 2.5. the same could be with other non-recent >>> distributions. >>> >>> the question is - do you care? >>> >>> --guy >>> >>> >>> On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 13:13 +0200, cool-RR wrote: >>> > Hey everyone, >>> > >>> > >>> > I'm considering dropping Python 2.5 support in GarlicSim. This would >>> > solve a compatibility bug I have now with zipimports, and generally >>> > make me a happier person. >>> > >>> > >>> > Do you think that people have generally moved off Python 2.5 already? >>> > Python 2.6 was released two and a half years ago, but I'm not sure >>> > whether 2.5 is safe to ignore already. I understand that GAE still >>> > runs on 2.5, which is a huge bummer... Though 2.7 support seems to be >>> > in the "Features on Deck" category in their roadmap, so I hope they do >>> > it soon so 2.5 would die already. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > What do you think? Are there any people here who are forced to work >>> > with Python 2.5 for some reason? >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Ram. >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Python-il mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/python-il >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > -- Sincerely, Ram Rachum
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