python 2.4 in hoary or not?

[Matthias Klose]

It already is part of hoary, although currently in universe, so you have
to add the line in /etc/apt/sources.list.

The CJK codecs are available for python2.3 as well, so we have to
outweight a stable 2.3.4 (maybe 2.3.5 scheduled for January) or a new
2.4 version as the default version.

    Matthias

Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2004, 18:02 +0100 schrieb Kristof Vansant:
> I think it is worth it to use python 2.4 in hoary since it has a lot of
> extra international encodings support. Since hoary goals are better
> support for internationalization and using python for system tools, this
> really looks worth inclusion.
> 
> The CJKCodecs collections of East Asian codecs, maintained by Hye-Shik
> Chang, was integrated into 2.4. The new encodings are: 
> 
>       * Chinese (PRC): gb2312, gbk, gb18030, big5hkscs, hz
>       * Chinese (ROC): big5, cp950
>       * Japanese: cp932, euc-jis-2004, euc-jp, euc-jisx0213,
>         iso-2022-jp, iso-2022-jp-1, iso-2022-jp-2, iso-2022-jp-3,
>         iso-2022-jp-ext, iso-2022-jp-2004, shift-jis, shift-jisx0213,
>         shift-jis-2004
>       * Korean: cp949, euc-kr, johab, iso-2022-kr
> 
>   * Some other new encodings were added: HP Roman8, ISO_8859-11,
>     ISO_8859-16, PCTP-154, and TIS-620. 
> 
>   * The UTF-8 and UTF-16 codecs now cope better with receiving partial
>     input. Previously the StreamReader class would try to read more
>     data, making it impossible to resume decoding from the stream. The
>     read() method will now return as much data as it can and future
>     calls will resume decoding where previous ones left off.
>     (Implemented by Walter Dörwald.)
> 
> 
> http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/whatsnew/node13.html
> -- 
> lupusBE (Kristof Vansant Belgium)
> 
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