[python-win32] Dropping support for Python 2.3?

[Vernon D. Cole]

2.5 is still good. I am suggesting (begging) that we drop 2.4 .
On Apr 28, 2013 11:31 PM, "Andreas Holtz" <A.Holtz at gmx.net> wrote:

> I'm bound to Python 2.5.
> I make heavy usage of 4Suite which is not supported for Python 2.6+ so I
> can not upgrade :(
> Or does anyone know a good XML lib that support xpath?
>
> Regards
>
> Andreas
>
> schrieb Michael Manfre am 26.03.2013 14:08:
>
>> Anyone running a no longer supported version of Python on Windows has
>> already made the conscious decision that upgrading their code to newer
>> versions is not worth the cost. No point in shifting that cost to pywin32
>> maintenance. +1 on dropping all code from any version of Python
>> that no longer receives security updates.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael Manfre
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Kris Hardy <kris at rhs.com <mailto:
>> kris at rhs.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     +1
>>
>>     Mark Hammond <skippy.hammond at gmail.com <mailto:skippy.hammond at gmail.*
>> *com <skippy.hammond at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>>         I've been happy to drop support for a couple of years, but while
>> it kept
>>         working I kept building it :) I can't recall if 2.4 is built with
>> vc6
>>         too - if so, we might as well kill that too.
>>
>>         Cheers,
>>
>>         Mark.
>>
>>         On 26/03/2013 8:33 PM, Vernon D. Cole wrote:
>>
>>             Perhaps it is time...
>>
>>             I found a copy of Python 2.3 to load onto a new computer in
>> order to
>>             test my software, but it was not easy. It is in the small
>> print about
>>             four pages down from the download page on python.org <
>> http://python.org>
>>             <http://python.org>. I was one of 432 people who have
>> downloaded the
>>             2.3 installer for pywin32 build 218. Compared with 121,351
>> downloaded
>>             installers fo r Python 3.3 and 2.7 combined, 431 is 0.35
>> percent of our
>>             users. I discounted myself, because the only reason I
>> downloaded the
>>             package was to make sure I have not broken something by using
>> a new
>>             feature. I wonder how many of the others of that 432 are for
>> similar
>>             reasons. Most, I would bet.
>>
>>             Supporting that zero point three percent is costly, in terms
>> of lost
>>             features. Adodbapi is not a large module, but there are half
>> a dozen
>>             places in it which deal specifically with Python 2.3 -- such
>> as "import
>>             win32com.decimal.decimal_23 as decimal" for example. There
>> are two
>>             places which work around not having generator expressions,
>> and a big
>>             question in the comments about handling the difference
>> between long and
>>             int integers, and whether that is done correctly. There is
>> also a
>>             confusing code block for float conversion with commas versus
>> dots. All
>>             of that goes away if I simply change the "all versions of
>> CPython lat er
>>             than,,," line.
>>
>>             The important differences in Python 2.4
>>             * decimal.Decimal
>>             * generator expressions
>>             * built in set objects
>>             * Decorators
>>             * unified integers
>>             * locale-independent float/string conversion
>>             * reverse iteration
>>
>>             I am starting an informal poll...
>>
>>             Is it really worthwhile to keep maintaining support for
>> Python 2.3,
>>             which was released in 2005 and has not been updated since
>> 2008?
>>             --
>>             Vernon
>>
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