On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 08:28, Ricardo wrote:
Dang, dang, dang. It's getting quite untenable to continue to support older Pythons, even in the Mailman 2.1 branch. Given that Python 2.1 and 2.2 are no longer being supported by the PSF, I've very tempted to require Python 2.3 for some upcoming patch version of Mailman 2.1. How much hardship would that impose on folks?
Well, Debian stable doesn't go beyond python2.2, so that would mean Debian users will either need to install python from source or find a backport. It'll take a while before the new stable Debian is released. I don't now the state of other distro's.
Here's a summary of Python versions on other popular distro's:
RedHat: RedHat 8.0 has Python 2.2.1 RedHat 9.0 has Python 2.2.2 Fedora Core 1 has Python 2.2.3
Mandrake: Mandrake Linux 9.2 has Python 2.3 Mandrake Linux 10.0 has Python 2.3.3
Gentoo supports these Python versions: 2.3.1-r1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3-r5. 2.3.3, 2.3.3-r1, 2.3.4_rc1
Looks like RedHat users will have to build Python from source if 2.3 becomes a requirement... :)
-Daniel