Python 3

[Scott Aubrey]

On 30 Jun 2010, at 23:55, Martin Pool wrote:

> On 1 July 2010 07:49, Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanat at bugzilla.org> wrote:
>> On 06/30/2010 02:28 PM, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>>> Though if we decided we could drop 2.4 support (and not 2.5) it might
>>> work for us.
>> 
>>        Dropping 2.4 support makes the baby sysadmin messiah cry.
> 
> This is really not on the cards for the foreseeable future.  There are
> clear benefits to supporting 2.4, and only minor benefits at present
> to supporting 3 now.  I think supporting 3 would be good but I
> certainly wouldn't give up 2.4 to get there.
> [snip]
> -- 
> Martin
> 

Why is that?

Not being a python developer myself, nor highly involved in the bazaar community, I feel I may be over stepping my boundary here, but here goes.

from a redhat 5 person perspective: I've got my bug fix, no new features version of an OS that's stable, and bazaar has a bug fix only version that works with this python version. The newer version of bazaar doesn't work, but that's OK.

Why is that idea of dropping Python 2.4 (and Redhat 5 etc) such a bad thing? Even putting aside python 3 support, supporting newer features and versions of python must have some benefit -- at least it's less platforms to make sure new code works on? combined with the fully, bug fix supported versions of bazaar available for those platforms, that will be supported for at least [insert timeframe]? Isn't that what these people expect from Redhat, why expect more from bazaar?

- Scott