[Python-Dev] 2.4a2, and @decorators

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 02:18:57 CEST 2004


[Raymond Hettinger]
> Too bad about 6.0.  I had thought the plan was to support both 6.0 and
> 7.1.  I'm not sure what we gained by dropping 6.0 right at the end :-(

There's no plan to support MSVC 6.0.  Martin routinely checks things
in that break it, and that's fine.  The only reason it *has* worked
until recently is that people sometimes volunteer to patch up the 6.0
part of the tree.  I gave some days to that at the start, because I
didn't have a machine at the time that *could* run 7.1.  Now I do, so
I pay a lot less attention to 6.0 (and Win98SE) now.

IOW, 6.0 never had, and still doesn't have, a champion (== someone
willing to keep it working) for 2.4.

I would have volunteered, but your report of a stack overflow in
test_pyclbr scared me away <wink>.


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