Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-22 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Victor Stinner victor.stin...@haypocalc.com wrote: On 21/12/2011 15:26, anatoly techtonik wrote: I believe most AppEngine applications in Python are still using 2.5 run-time. So are development boxes for these applications. It may take another year or two

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-22 Thread Tim Wintle
On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 07:42 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Dec 21, 2011, at 07:16 AM, Chris Withers wrote: What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? FWIW, Ubuntu dropped 2.5 quite a while ago. Some servers I deploy to run Ubuntu, but we're installing previous python

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-22 Thread Sean Reifschneider
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 07:42:45AM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: FWIW, Ubuntu dropped 2.5 quite a while ago. The next LTS (long term support) That's true for *CURRENT* releases, however Ubuntu still supports Python 2.5 via 8.04 LTS (end of life in April 2013). Lucid is 2.6 and goes EOL in 2015.

[Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Chris Withers
What's the python-dev view on this? Original Message Subject: Anyone still using Python 2.5? Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:15:46 + From: Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk To: Python List python-l...@python.org, testing-in-pyt...@lists.idyll.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:16, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? Do people still have to use this in commercial environments or is everyone on 2.6+ nowadays? This seems rather off-topic for python-dev. FWIW, on Gentoo

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Charles-François Natali
Do people still have to use this in commercial environments or is everyone on 2.6+ nowadays? RHEL 5.7 ships with Python 2.4.3. So no, not everybody is on 2.6+ today, and this won't happen before a couple years. cf ___ Python-Dev mailing list

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Dec 21, 2011, at 07:16 AM, Chris Withers wrote: What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? FWIW, Ubuntu dropped 2.5 quite a while ago. The next LTS (long term support) release in April 2012 will have only Python 2.7 (and 3.2). The currently in-development next Debian

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread anatoly techtonik
I believe most AppEngine applications in Python are still using 2.5 run-time. So are development boxes for these applications. It may take another year or two for the transition. -- anatoly t. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.ukwrote: What's the python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread David Malcolm
On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 10:42 +0100, Charles-François Natali wrote: Do people still have to use this in commercial environments or is everyone on 2.6+ nowadays? RHEL 5.7 ships with Python 2.4.3. So no, not everybody is on 2.6+ today, and this won't happen before a couple years. (and RHEL

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Mark Hammond
FWIW, the most recent version of pywin32 has the following download counts (rounded to the nearest thousand) Version 32bit 64bit - 3.2 - 75,000 9,000 3.1 - 4,000 1,000 2.7 - 126,000 16,000 2.6 - 46,000 6,000 2.5 - 21,000 n/a 2.4

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Victor Stinner
What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? There is no such consensus :-) Do people still have to use this in commercial environments or is everyone on 2.6+ nowadays? At work, we are still using Python 2.5. Six months ago, we started a project to upgrade to 2.7, but we

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Victor Stinner
On 21/12/2011 15:26, anatoly techtonik wrote: I believe most AppEngine applications in Python are still using 2.5 run-time. So are development boxes for these applications. It may take another year or two for the transition. App engine 1.6 improved support of Python 2.7, so I hope that

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:49:06AM +0100, Victor Stinner wrote: Do people still have to use this in commercial environments or is everyone on 2.6+ nowadays? At work, we are still using Python 2.5. Six months ago, we started a project to upgrade to 2.7, but we have now more urgent tasks, so