On Feb 7, 2011, at 9:54 PM, guruyaya wrote: > > While I can avoid using python 2.4, it will break the backward > compatebility policy web2py has. I'm not sure that all web2py users > are part of these discussions.
It preserves backward compatibility in the sense that it doesn't break any applications. It just means that at some point, to upgrade web2py on a 2.4-based system will require upgrading Python as well. > The main thing I have to say here, is I'll need to know more about the > price, in order to give my +1 for this one. What do you mean improve > code base? Are there any stuck features? Can you think of an example, > that will show the nature of this problem well? > > On Feb 4, 10:37 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <[email protected]> > wrote: >> @web2py-developers we have discussing the possibility of dropping >> support for Python 2.4. So far we have put a great effor t in having >> web2py run on 2.4 because this is the default python version on CentOS >> for shared hosts. Yet by dropping support we could improve the code >> base, make it more readable and expose new syntax to users. >> >> Who strongly opposes? Make your case.
