hi, It's about people using your programs -- not just about people making programs.
Using python 2.6 cuts out at least 3%* of the people who can use your program. For some people this is important. That's millions of computers, mostly older recycled computers. So for people who care about the environment, or about poor people, or your grandparents -- then supporting older things is a good idea. Anyway... we've heard good reasons from people who want to keep supporting 2.3, and from Lenard who doesn't care about 2.3... so I think we should leave 2.3 support code in there, and not worry about it too much. * according to different stats, including wc3 around 3% of computers can't run python 2.6 -- because python developers removed support for older OS's from their release. It would now be almost *impossible* to compile python 2.6 so it can run on older computers because they removed the code. ps. x86 is one of the most popular VMs in the world - exactly because of backwards compatibility. On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:53 PM, James Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Brian Fisher > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I actually see more point in supporting 2.3 than 2.4 >> >> 2.4 was a pretty worthless release :) > > I see no point in supporting older versions of > the Python language/interpter/vm/etc > > Why ? It encourages lazy developers. Keep up boys :) > (And girls if there are any!). Not maintaining support > for Python 2.3 or 2.4 won't stop games that > were developed with an older version of pygame > and therefore an older version of pygame from > running - it will however force/encourage the > developer(s) in question to: > > a) update their game! > b) update to the latest version of pygame and all it's new features, > fixesx and benefits. > c) update to the latest version of python and all it's greatness. > > Backwards compatibility is stupid :) Look at the > x86 CPUs! Does anyone even care or need the > support of the Menomics that that old 8086 > processors supproted ? > > I say: Concentrate on Python 2.6/3.0 > Forget 2.x < 2.5 > > cheers > James > > -- > -- > -- "Problems are solved by method" >
