[Mailman-Developers] Mailman 2.X CVS MAIN is back

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 01:38, Tokio Kikuchi wrote:

> I've done backporting the changes in Release_2_1-maint into the MAIN
> branch which was not updated more than a year and this has caused
> confusion for the people who want to try CVS checkout.  For I was a
> little bit tired of maintaining two branches (or of the pressure to do
> so) I want to check in to the MAIN branch only hereafter, although some
> serious security bug fix (if any) should be committed in the 2.1 branch.
> 
> I believe the MAIN CVS checkout is now ready to be tested but plese let
> me know if you notice something.

I'd like to add my thanks to Terri's for your work here!  I haven't
looked at the trunk yet, but this was work that was definitely necessary
to get MM2.2 on track.

I'd like to open the discussion now about Python version support in
MM2.2.  My strong desire is to require at least Python 2.4 for MM2.2. 
Python 2.4 is 10 months old and a second patch release will probably
come out within a few months.  There's no question about its maturity
and stability.  As soon as Python 2.5 comes out (if history is any
indication, that will be about 8 months from now), Python 2.3 will be
officially become unsupported.

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.

-Barry

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