What's the status of Python 2.6 support?

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "jam" == John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

    jam> It seems I don't have Vincent's email. But I'll try to
    jam> address some of the things he mentioned.

The reason seems to be:

 <john at arbash-meinel.com>: host mail2.domainpeople.com[204.174.223.74] said: 550
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so I will try to *avoid* including you in my mail recipients if I
want to talk to you... I just love spammers...

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    >>> And even in the pathological cases, we will not use 2.6 if 2.4 or
    >>> 2.5 is found first...

    jam> well, it would be trivial to change the order, so that you have:
    jam> KNOWN_PYTHONS = ('python2.6', 'python2.5', 'python2.4')

Sure, but that's not a light change to try... If it works don't
fix it, etc..

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    jam> Anyway, just to say that it does exist out there, and it
    jam> is nice to have things "Just Work" when we
    jam> can. Upgrading distros is traditionally a pain,
    jam> especially on production servers.

ETOOEARLY, let's talk about it again in one year or 5 :-)

My main Mac is indeed running python-2.3 natively and I upgraded
it to 2.5.

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    jam> Just to mention that PQM only runs tests against
    jam> python2.4. It may change, but I believe the PQM machine
    jam> is still on 'dapper-6.6'. I think Intrepid still uses
    jam> 2.5 by default, but I would guess that Jaunty will use
    jam> 2.6. So we should get more direct testing.

Or set up our own test farm... still on my TODO list... somewhere :)

   Vincent