[Pythonmac-SIG] [PyOXIDE] Drop support for 10.2?

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 6, 2005, at 3:17 PM, gandreas at gandreas.com wrote:

> So given that 10.4 is currently available, I'm considering dropping
> support for 10.2 from future versions of PyOXIDE.  I'm aware that  
> there
> is at least one user still on 10.2, not sure about others.  Given that
> I can't easily test 10.2 (short of hooking up a firewire drive to a
> spare machine), I know that there are 10.2 problems that exist in the
> current codebase (and more could happen).  It seems like there is a
> movement to only support the latest & greatest (even if it requires
> users to download a newer version of Python than is on their brand new
> OS), but I'm trying to resist this temptation at least a little.  So
> any comments/suggestion on the following:
>
>     Require 10.3 (and Python 2.3 that came with 10.3)
>     Support 10.4 (with both the stock Python and whatever is currently
> "supported")
>     Require PyObj 1.3
>     Require py2app 0.1.9
>     Remove support for bundlebuilder
>
> Note that PyOXIDE is built using the framework python, so the embedded
> interpreter (which is what runs the scripts that make up PyOXIDE) will
> be whatever /System/Library/Frameworks/Python is (but you can specify
> any python interpreter for external execution).

All of this sounds perfectly good to me.

You should probably drop the embedded interpreter (as far as the user  
can see) entirely, except maybe as an "advanced" feature (i.e.  
Safari's debug menu) and an implementation detail.

-bob