[Python-Dev] PEP 3003 - Python Language Moratorium
Tres Seaver
tseaver at palladion.com
Fri Nov 6 20:37:44 CET 2009
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Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> But supporting 4 releases in a row has been a bit of a PITA. Luckily,
> we finally felt it was time to drop 2.3, so now we can make use of
> luxuries such as subprocess... Still, supporting 3 releases seems
> relatively common in the Python world (after all, parts of Zope still
> require 2.4, I think), and so it would be nice if the stdlib moved a
> little bit slower.
The current release of Zope (finally) requires 2.5 or 2.6: we have a
"don't intentionally break 2.4" policy in place, however, FBO those
users whose system Python is still 2.4, and who can't / won't build
their own Python.
Tres.
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