Hello, * 2009-06-24 07:30, Balazs Ree wrote: > What's the reason for the removal of python2.4? Is there a technological > reason, or is this a policy decision? Don't forget that Plone users, who > are also the biggest consumer group of Zope / ZTK, still will be users of > 2.4 for a while. The unified installer is not the only installation > method used for Plone, in fact many users and the majority of deployments > use python + buildout. These users will need to read documentation and do > installation to be able to bootstrap their buildout, which is not exactly > a reason for them to choose Debian / Ubuntu in this case.
We already have python2.5 and python2.6; after the release of stable (either Debian or Ubuntu), we have to provide security support for all the packages, and supporting three different versions of python is too much work. -- Fabio Tranchitella http://www.kobold.it Free Software Developer and Consultant http://www.tranchitella.it _____________________________________________________________________ 1024D/7F961564, fpr 5465 6E69 E559 6466 BF3D 9F01 2BF8 EE2B 7F96 1564 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
