Re: Python version auditing followup

2012-12-27 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
On do, 2012-12-20 at 10:30 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: Which platforms that are long-term-maintained by their vendors still pin their Python at 2.4.X? RHEL 5.x and its clones still use python 2.4. It is supported by red hat until at least 2017 (though end of production phase two, Q1 2014,

Re: Python version auditing followup

2012-12-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Joachim Schmitz j...@schmitz-digital.de writes: We have a working 2.4.2 for HP-NonStop and some major problems getting 2.7.3 to work. I do not think a platform that stops at 2.4.2 instead of going to higher 2.4.X series deserves to be called long term maintained by their vendors. It

RE: Python version auditing followup

2012-12-21 Thread Joachim Schmitz
From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gits...@pobox.com] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 7:28 PM To: Joachim Schmitz Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Python version auditing followup Joachim Schmitz j...@schmitz-digital.de writes: We have a working 2.4.2 for HP-NonStop and some major

Re: Python version auditing followup

2012-12-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
e...@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes: That was the first of three patches I have promised. In order to do the next one, which will be a development guidelines recommend compatibility back to some specific version X, I need a policy decision. How do we set X? I don't think X can be

Re: Python version auditing followup

2012-12-20 Thread Joachim Schmitz
Junio C Hamano wrote: e...@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes: That was the first of three patches I have promised. In order to do the next one, which will be a development guidelines recommend compatibility back to some specific version X, I need a policy decision. How do we set X? I

Re: Python version auditing followup

2012-12-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
Joachim Schmitz j...@schmitz-digital.de writes: Junio C Hamano wrote: I personally would think 2.6 is recent enough. Which platforms that are long-term-maintained by their vendors still pin their Python at 2.4.X? 2.4.6 was in 2008 that was source only, 2.4.4 was in late 2006 that was the

RE: Python version auditing followup

2012-12-20 Thread Joachim Schmitz
From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gits...@pobox.com] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:39 PM To: Joachim Schmitz Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Python version auditing followup Joachim Schmitz j...@schmitz-digital.de writes: Junio C Hamano wrote: I personally would think 2.6