On 20.03.2014, at 4:20PM, Daniel Johnson <daniel.johnso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree. There's no reason to keep 2.6 around as 2.7 is fully backward
> compatible.
>
Just an aside, anyone aware of any major Linux distros that still only provide
2.6?
This was an issue for many packages like numpy to keep support for older
versions,
since some places like large companies or computing centres would only upgrade
on something like 5-year cycles; this in turn would be a potential incentive
for developers
to keep a 2.6 installation for testing purposes. Not saying that this has to be
provided
by fink though if it's too much maintenance. After all one could relatively
easily maintain
private copies in the local branch, if really needed.
> It's also reasonable to kill 3.1 as it's now unsupported upstream. 3.3 and
> the just released 3.4 will stay of course, but we might also consider killing
> 3.2 even though it still gets patches. 3.3 introduced better backward
> compatibility with 2.7 to ease porting to 3.x and vastly improved unicode
> string handling.
>
> There are no language changes between 3.3 and 3.4, just new and updated
> library modules, so if maintainers can add 3.4 variants to their packages
> that would be awesome.
Big +1 to get rid of 3.1!
Does anyone know btw if 3.4 already comes with full setuptools support included?
It has a %i/bin/easy_install-3.4, and I was able to build and test coverage,
nose
and numpy without installing it, so maybe a change is in order to
*Depends: ( %type_pkg[python] <= 33 ) setuptools-tng-py%type_pkg[python]
Cheers,
Derek
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