[python-committers] Cutting Python 2.6

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Oct 2, 2008, at 2:08 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> You're absolutely right and that sounds good.  I will update the PEP
>> accordingly.  Martin, Ronald, Sean, what timezones are you in?  I am
>> US/Eastern.
>
> I'm in CET (Central European), that GMT+2 in DST, and GMT+1 otherwise.

Got it, thanks.

> As for Sean: Sean and me had agreed that we won't do RPMs anymore for
> 2.5.x. Maybe we need to reconsider now, but my view is that binary  
> RPMs
> typically fit a very specific OS release only (e.g. some version of
> Redhat); all the other RPM-using distributions (SuSE etc) couldn't use
> it. So compared to the value, the effort is too big.

Yep, Sean said he didn't have time to do the RPMs this time, and I  
agree completely, the effort is too big for the value.  I've nixed the  
RPM steps from PEP 101.

- -Barry

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