Point well taken. It is always a tradeoff / balancing act where you can 
have 'anything' but not 'everything'. Where would the fun be if we could 
have everything :) ? . In our situation, there were a couple of 
extensions that did not work (at least out of the box) in Python 2.7.

Raul






On 14/12/2012 1:09 AM, Sturla Molden wrote:
> So when upgrading everything you prefer to keep the bugs in 2.6 that were 
> squashed in 2.7? Who has taught IT managers that older and more buggy 
> versions of software are more "professional" and better for corporate 
> environments?
>
> Sturla
>
>
> Den 14. des. 2012 kl. 05:14 skrev Raul Cota <r...@virtualmaterials.com>:
>
>>
>> +1 from me
>>
>> For what is worth, we are just moving forward from Python 2.2 / Numeric
>> and are going to 2.6 and it has been rather painful because of the
>> several little details of extensions and other subtleties. I believe we
>> will settle there for a while. For companies like ours, it is a big
>> problem to upgrade versions. There is always this or that hiccup that
>> "works great" in a version but not so much in another and we also have
>> all sorts of extensions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Raul
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 13/12/2012 9:34 AM, Charles R Harris wrote:
>>> Time to raise this topic again. Opinions welcome.
>>>
>>> Chuck
>>>
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