Excerpts from Michael Pedersen's message of Fri May 20 00:02:03 -0400 2011: > Our current development tree provides support for Kajiki. Kajiki does not > support Python 2.4. > > We have three options: > 1. Get Kajiki to support Python 2.4. Alessandro already did this, but the > problem is ongoing support. Future updates could drop the support as easily > as it gets added back in. > 2. Drop Kajiki support in our code base. From everything I've seen, Kajiki > has better performance than Genshi. I would like to keep Kajiki around as an > option, and maybe (someday) move default development to it instead of Genshi > (but that is a ways off, at least a year, don't worry). > 3. Drop Python 2.4 support.
In the past we've put quite a bit of effort to keep our stack Py2.4 compliant. It's not very difficult, but every now and then a new release of a dependency will contain a 'with' satement or a ternary operation. It'll most likely keep happening too. Thankfully, our Jenkins instance runs our test suites against 2.4 and 2.6. I'm in favor of option #1. We've made it this far remaining 2.4 compliant, and as far as I know our stack is still willing to support it too. If any of our core components decides to break support, then I think we'll need to reconsider it. > Now, the major problem is RedHat 5.x and CentOS 5.x. They run Python 2.4, > and upgrading the system Python will raise issues with yum. As such, we're > going to see places where people will be deploying on RH% and CentOS5, and > we can't avoid this. The question becomes: Do we support this? RHEL/Cent 5 is not as much of a problem as it used to be. At the sprints 2 PyCons ago, we created python2.6 packages for RHEL5 which are now in the EPEL repositories[0]. luke [0]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en.
