[python-win32] Dropping support for Python 2.3?

[Mark Hammond]

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>.  I was one of 432 people who have downloaded the
> 2.3 installer for pywin32 build 218.  Compared with 121,351 downloaded
> installers for 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 later
> 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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