Dropping support for Python 2.4

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Daniel Watkins wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 17:45 +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote: 
>> Unfortunately we're still supporting Python 2.4.  AFAIK there are no
>> plans to change that.
> I wonder if it's time to change this policy.  Looking at a few major
> distros: 
>       * Debian: python2.5 is in stable (soon to be oldstable) 
>       * Ubuntu: python2.5 has been in since Feisty (and bzr is 0.8.2 in
>         dapper, so we're presumably not going to be backporting
>         incompatible changes any time soon) 
>       * Fedora: Python version 2.5 since Fedora 7 (which was as early as
>         I could dig records out for)
> 
> So it wouldn't be unreasonable to start thinking about it.
> 
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> 

I don't see a compelling reason to remove support for python2.4 yet.
Supporting older versions just makes it easier for people who don't have
full control over their systems, and are still running some old
extra-stable version of a platform. For example RHEL, and Sun both tend
to use older versions of python. (I'm only positive about RHEL which
stuck with python2.3 for a couple releases after 2.4 came out, which was
a bit of a pain.)

Also, as python2.6 isn't even final yet, it seems a bit minimal to only
support a single version.

John
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