What, if any, impact do you think the LSB should have wrt maintaining 2.4? n On 12/4/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:
At the LSB meeting, there was a brief discussion of what Python version should be incorporated into LSB. This is more an issue if ABI compatibility for the C ABI is desired, but even if only script portability is a goal, application developers will need to know what APIs they have available in LSB 3.2 and which they don't.
LSB codifies existing practice, rather than defining "anticipating" standards, so things get only into LSB if they are already commonplace in distributions. Currently, Python 2.4 is widely available in Linux distributions; Python 2.5 is not and (apparently) will not be included in the next RHEL release (which apparently is coming soon).
So it looks like LSB will standardize on Python 2.4 (which will also be the default version in the next Debian release).
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