On Feb 4, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Łukasz Rekucki wrote: > With Django 1.3 almost out, I would like to ask, what's the current > deprecation plan of old Python versions (namely 2.4 and 2.5). The > major argument against dropping 2.4 was RHEL support. RHEL6 seems to > support Python 2.6 (dunno about CentOS), so is that still a blocker ? > > As for dropping 2.5, the potential issue is that it's still quite > widely used by hosting services (would be nice to have some fresh data > about this; http://www.djangosites.org/stats/ is useful, but probably > a bit outdated). > > I wanted to start this discussion before 1.3 is released, because I > think that if we decide to drop 2.4, we should give an early warning > in 1.3 release notes, so that people can switch over more smoothly. >
I think dropping 2.4 would be a good idea but I think 2.5 needs to be kept around so that Django can continue to run on appengine. I don't believe appengine has any plans of moving to 2.6+ any time soon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
