[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.3 - Carbon only?

[Steven Burr]

On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 12:33 PM, Magladry, Stephen wrote:

> Our cross platform code is already under development. Our first title 
> is to
> be released in about nine months. True 2.3 wouldn't be usable for us at 
> that
> time, but this engine will be reused many times, maybe even concurrently
> with this first project. So a release three months after the release of 
> 2.3
> wouldn't be totally out of the question. That would make 8.6 not even 3 
> and
> a half years old. Our current support of System 7.5.5, released in 
> August
> 1996, makes our support go back almost 6 years. 3 and a half years, 
> even 4
> years,  is considerably shorter that 6 years.

If I understand Jack correctly, Python 2.2 will be the last release that 
runs on 8.1 or earlier, no matter what.    Running 2.3 on 7.5.5 or any 
other system version preceding 8.5 will NOT be an option.

System 8.5 was released in 10/98, and 8.6 came out in 4/99.  I can see 
that there might be a significant difference between supporting system 
versions that are 2 and a half years apart.  But would there be a 
significant difference between supporting systems that are only 5 months 
apart?  For that matter, would you really even consider cutting off 
support at 8.5?  Because that's what you'll have to do, if you want to 
use 2.3 in your products, regardless of whether 2.3 is Carbon-only.