<div dir="ltr">I concur. I am one of the 100 downloads of 2.5 -- and the only reason I download it is to test it, not to use it in production. How many of the other downloaders are like me? Most, I would bet. Dropping 2.5 would allow use of many Python3 features, since 2.6 has the backports for them (print function, "{}".format(), byte literals, and especially "except ... as"). It would simplify the Python code in the library.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Tim Golden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@timgolden.me.uk" target="_blank">mail@timgolden.me.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 15/04/2015 10:11, Mark Hammond wrote:<br>
> Hi Tim,<br>
> I still build for 2.5 and 3.1, but really only because they do still<br>
> build. If there's a reasonable reason to drop support for some I doubt<br>
> it will hurt many people - the sourceforge page should show you download<br>
> stats, but last I looked 2.5 was rarely used then, and that was some<br>
> time ago!<br>
<br>
<br>
</span>FWIW the sf page for build 219 shows less than 100 downloads for 2.5/6<br>
and 3.1/2.<br>
<br>
Unsuprisingly 2.7 dominates with 3,000 downloads at 32-bit (2,000 at<br>
64-bit).<br>
<br>
3.3 comes in just over 100 and 3.4/5 each a few hundreds.<br>
<br>
So I feel no particular compunction about dropping forward support for<br>
2.6 and lower and 3.2 and lower. (Could say 2.5/3.1 but it's the same<br>
SDK level I think).<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
TJG<br>
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