On 07/27/2011 08:11 PM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:51 AM, mark florisson
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 27 July 2011 18:46, Vitja Makarov<[email protected]> wrote:
2011/7/27 Stefan Behnel<[email protected]>:
Hi,
quick question before raising a poll on the users mailing list.
Would anyone mind dropping support for CPython 2.3?
1) it's long out of maintenance, even the last security release dates back
to early 2008
2) there have been seven main releases of CPython since then, four of which
were in the 2.x line, starting with 2.4 in late 2004 - even 2.5 was released
five years ago
3) it produces weird and annoying errors in Jenkins, or rather none at all
most of the time, since the test suite does not run the doctests on 2.3
anyway
4) the new code that was written by Vitja and Mark would be (or would have
been) cleaner with decorators and other 'recent' Python features
There are two sides to this: dropping support for running Cython in 2.3 and
dropping support for compiling the generated code in 2.3. The first is the
more interesting one. It's not strictly required to do both, we could
continue to support it at the C level, but given how badly tested Cython is
on that version anyway, I think stating that the generated code is 2.3
compatible is already hand waving today. So we may even just let the C code
support fade out silently until someone actually notices.
Actually, even 2.4 is a candidate for dropping support for running Cython on
it. The last release dates back to December 2008, and its lack of 64 bit
support makes it severly less attractive than even 2.5, which is also going
out of security-fix maintenance now.
Comments?
+1
I think we should completely drop 2.3 and 2.4 support. I hope nobody
use it with recent Cython versions.
I'm OK with dropping 2.3, but lets pose the question on cython-users
as well first. If so, we'd declare 0.15 as the last release
"supporting" 2.3. Dropping 2.4 seems to have less advantages and more
disadvantages, but is worth inquiring about as well.
Stefan mentioned 2.3 being "all red" -- would you support 2.3 for Cython
0.15 even if it's a lot of work? If it's not much work I agree, I just
don't think it's a valuable use of our time if things need fixing. It's
not like 0.14.x will become unavailable.
Dag Sverre
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