[Cython] Should we drop support for CPython 2.3? (and maybe even 2.4?)

[David Cournapeau]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> David Cournapeau, 30.07.2011 10:52:
>>
>> Python 2.4 is still surprisingly
>> common. Working around it for C extensions can be pretty daunting.
>
> The same applies to Cython, obviously, although I do see the advantage of
> doing it in one place, and specifically in Cython, instead of dropping it on
> the users.

I was not very clear: I meant that if you were to use python 2.5 or
above on a platform where only 2.4 is available, you would need to
build a lot of C extensions by yourself, which is out of reach to the
vast majority of our users.

Typically, I had to use centos 5.x 2 years ago, and even for me, it
was quite difficult to build a python 2.6 environment I was
comfortable with (keeping in mind that a lot of "big-lab environments"
do not give you admin access). Centos 5.x end of life is in 2014.

cheers,

David