Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-22 Thread Kumar McMillan
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.ukwrote: Hi All, What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? If you compile mod_wsgi with Apache you are stuck on the version of Python you compiled with. I had an old server stuck on Python 2.5 for this

Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Chris Withers
Hi All, 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? I'm finally getting some continuous integration set up for my packages and it's highlighting some 2.5 compatibility issues.

Re: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Stefan Behnel
Chris Withers, 21.12.2011 08:15: What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? From my own (recent) polls, it appears that people want continued support for Python 2.4 and later for a couple of years to come, mainly because RHEL5 uses that by default and has official

Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Pierre-Yves David
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 07:15:46AM +, Chris Withers wrote: Hi All, 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? I'm finally getting some continuous integration set up for

RE: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Staple, Daniel (BSKYB)
-in-python-boun...@lists.idyll.org] On Behalf Of Chris Withers Sent: 21 December 2011 07:16 To: Python List; testing-in-pyt...@lists.idyll.org; simplis...@googlegroups.com Subject: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5? Hi All, What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? Do people still

Re: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:15:46 +, Chris Withers wrote: Hi All, 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? Centos and Red Hat production systems still use Python 2.4, so

Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Jonathan Lange
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Pierre-Yves David pierre-yves.da...@logilab.fr wrote: ... The most notable exception is Ubuntu Hardy and LTS release from april 2008 with 2.5. But this LTS is out of support for almost 1 year now and current LTS (Lucid) ship 2.6. Not quite. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is

Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Jim Fulton
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Hi All, 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? I'm finally getting some continuous integration

Re: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread George R. C. Silva
Em quarta-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2011 08:50:34, Steven D'Aprano escreveu: On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:15:46 +, Chris Withers wrote: Hi All, 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+

Re: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Roy Smith
In article 4ef1b9fa$0$29973$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Centos and Red Hat production systems still use Python 2.4, so yes, absolutely, 2.5 and 2.4 still need to be supported. Is Python 2.4 destined to be the next IE-6? --

Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Tom Davis
On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Hi All, 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? For those of us living the nightmare of

Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Roy Smith
In article mailman.3913.1324474710.27778.python-l...@python.org, Tom Davis t...@recursivedream.com wrote: For those of us living the nightmare of AppEngine I've never used AppEngine, just read a little about it. Could you explain why it's a nightmare? --

Re: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Tim Chase
On 12/21/11 07:07, Roy Smith wrote: In article4ef1b9fa$0$29973$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com, Steven D'Apranosteve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: Centos and Red Hat production systems still use Python 2.4, so yes, absolutely, 2.5 and 2.4 still need to be supported. Is Python

Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Chris . Wesseling
On 2011-12-21T07:15:46+, Chris Withers wrote: Hi All, 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? 2.5, how modern. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 comes with 2.4.2 Will be

Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 05:57, Jim Fulton j...@zope.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Hi All, What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? Do people still have to use this in commercial environments or is

Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Jim Fulton j...@zope.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Chris Withers ch...@simplistix.co.uk wrote: Hi All, What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays? Do people still have to use this in commercial environments or is

Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Nathan Rice
Just because the default python version on a server is 2.4 doesn't mean you can't install 2.7.2... If the admins that run the machine are too lazy/stupid to install a second copy of Python let them rot. Of course, if by some nightmare scenario you have code that can't be upgraded for whatever

Re: [TIP] Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:15:31 -0500, Nathan Rice wrote: Just because the default python version on a server is 2.4 doesn't mean you can't install 2.7.2... If the admins that run the machine are too lazy/stupid to install a second copy of Python let them rot. If any of my sys admins installed

Re: Anyone still using Python 2.5?

2011-12-21 Thread Stefan Behnel
Dennis Lee Bieber, 21.12.2011 17:48: On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:15:46 +, Chris Withers 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? I was recently laid-off from a program