On 8/31/05 8:11 AM, "Barry Warsaw" barry@python.org wrote:
At the very least, we must drop Python 2.1 and 2.2. Neither of those versions are being supported any longer and I will definitely not claim to have tested the current code base on either version in a very long time. If we must continue to support Python 2.3, so be it, but I'd like to leapfrog even that version. There are several Python 2.4 constructs and modules that I'd dearly love to be able to take advantage of.
It seems to me that the improved email module is enough reason to require Python 2.4. (We moved our email processing to 2.4 for that reason.)
Yes, one can--as I understand it--use the new email module under Python 2.3, but if one has institutional issues that prevent using Python 2.4 they probably prevent messing about with 2.3 in that sort of way, as well.
--John