Re: Support for Python2.1 and Python2.2

2003-09-10 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:53:07AM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: But it is OK to drop 2.1/2.2 support for packages that nothing depends on? -1 Developers are using such packages to check that their work will work on several python versions. For example, I recently had to work for a customer

Re: Support for Python2.1 and Python2.2

2003-09-10 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Alexandre Fayolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:53:07AM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: But it is OK to drop 2.1/2.2 support for packages that nothing depends on? -1 if -1: print parsed as true else: print parsed as false Developers are using such packages to

Re: Support for Python2.1 and Python2.2

2003-09-10 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:35:42PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: Alexandre Fayolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:53:07AM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: But it is OK to drop 2.1/2.2 support for packages that nothing depends on? -1 if -1: print parsed as

Re: Support for Python2.1 and Python2.2

2003-09-10 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 02:51, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:35:42PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: Alexandre Fayolle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] OK, so keep them around until the version in question is dropped from the archive? This would be nice. Or until

Support for Python2.1 and Python2.2

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Hi! I wonder how long source packages that build binary packages for multiple versions (2.{1,2,3}) should continue to build packages for the old Python versions. IMHO, this should be documented somewhere (Policy?). Is there any timeline how long Python 2.2 and 2.1 should stay in the archive?

Re: Support for Python2.1 and Python2.2

2003-09-09 Thread Matthias Klose
Andreas Rottmann writes: Hi! I wonder how long source packages that build binary packages for multiple versions (2.{1,2,3}) should continue to build packages for the old Python versions. IMHO, this should be documented somewhere (Policy?). Is there any timeline how long Python 2.2 and 2.1

Re: Support for Python2.1 and Python2.2

2003-09-09 Thread Jim Penny
On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 21:27:16 +0200 Andreas Rottmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I wonder how long source packages that build binary packages for multiple versions (2.{1,2,3}) should continue to build packages for the old Python versions. IMHO, this should be documented somewhere

Re: Support for Python2.1 and Python2.2

2003-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 15:24, Matthias Klose wrote: Andreas Rottmann writes: Hi! I wonder how long source packages that build binary packages for multiple versions (2.{1,2,3}) should continue to build packages for the old Python versions. IMHO, this should be documented somewhere