On 9/21/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have an opinion on how much longer we will support python-2.3? > Maybe a good guide would be to support the most up-to-date RHEL release, > as well as the prior release. (At my lab, we haven't updated our RHEL > computers to version 5 yet, the first to include python-2.4.)
I think we should continue to support it for a while yet, mainly because it is easy to do so. We don't really need generator comprehensions -- in the examples you highlighted I think they were used for syntactic convenience, though admittedly in some cases syntax conveniences are compelling. I only recently upgraded from 2.3 on my home machine, when I was trying to get svn traits working. I am not sure that RHEL should be our standard though -- shouldn't people be punished for using that distro anyway <wink>? A good way to know it's time to deprecate support is when you accidentally break something and noone notices for a month or two because noone is actually using it. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
