7 Dec
2011
7 Dec
'11
9:22 p.m.
On Dec 08, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Indeed - it's *already* the case that ports that can drop 2.5 support have a much easier time of things, and those that can also drop 2.6 have it easier still (I believe the latter is uncommon though, since most people want their stuff to run on platforms like the RHEL6 system Python installation).
I think the ability to drop anything less than 2.6 is a huge win, but the ability to drop 2.6 itself is a smaller win. Yes, there are things in 2.7 that help make porting to Python 3 easier still, but at least IME so far, not so much as to be overwhelmingly compelling. Python 2.6 as a minimum *is* very compelling. Cheers, -Barry