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

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 30 July 2011 06:21, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

I'm with David here.

I do not object dropping support for 2.3, but would like 2.4 to be supported.


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