Op Vr, 2011-08-26 om 09:20 +0200 skryf Stefan Behnel:
Hi,
I'm planning to drop support for CPython 2.3 right in the next release. If anyone feels an urgent need for it to stay supported, please provide a solid line of reasoning in response to this e-mail, preferably accompanied by a funding plan.
Basically, CPython 2.3 lacks several features at the language, standard library and C level that make a developer's and distributor's life easier. It was followed by Python 2.4 seven years ago and has not received even security updates for more than three years. There have been seven newer release series of CPython since then, so it's not just resting, it's a truly dead parrot.
We still try to support Python 2.4 in our code (translate.sourceforge.net). Supported versions of RHEL still have Python 2.3 and 2.4, so if we want lxml to run on currently supported versions of such enterprise distributions, that might be interesting to consider. RHEL 4 is still in regular life cycle, with extended life cycle going until 2015! Whether that is relevant is another question. I guess if it is clearly indicated which version still works with Python 2.3 there is a solution if there is somebody who really needs that. Tracking the number of downloads for that release after becoming incompatible with 2.3 (relative to releases after that) might provide some information to show if there is any demand, although noise might make things hard. Our project won't be affected if lxml requires Python 2.4 or later. Keep well Friedel -- Recently on my blog: http://translate.org.za/blogs/friedel/en/content/virtaal-070-released