On 30 July 2011 06:21, David Cournapeau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> wrote: >> David Cournapeau, 30.07.2011 10:52: >>> >>> Python 2.4 is still surprisingly >>> common. Working around it for C extensions can be pretty daunting. >> >> The same applies to Cython, obviously, although I do see the advantage of >> doing it in one place, and specifically in Cython, instead of dropping it on >> the users. > > I was not very clear: I meant that if you were to use python 2.5 or > above on a platform where only 2.4 is available, you would need to > build a lot of C extensions by yourself, which is out of reach to the > vast majority of our users. > > Typically, I had to use centos 5.x 2 years ago, and even for me, it > was quite difficult to build a python 2.6 environment I was > comfortable with (keeping in mind that a lot of "big-lab environments" > do not give you admin access). Centos 5.x end of life is in 2014. >
I'm with David here. I do not object dropping support for 2.3, but would like 2.4 to be supported. -- Lisandro Dalcin --------------- CIMEC (INTEC/CONICET-UNL) Predio CONICET-Santa Fe Colectora RN 168 Km 472, Paraje El Pozo 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina Tel: +54-342-4511594 (ext 1011) Tel/Fax: +54-342-4511169 _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
