What, if any, impact do you think the LSB should have wrt maintaining 2.4? n
On 12/4/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the LSB meeting, there was a brief discussion of what Python > version should be incorporated into LSB. This is more an issue > if ABI compatibility for the C ABI is desired, but even if only > script portability is a goal, application developers will need > to know what APIs they have available in LSB 3.2 and which they > don't. > > LSB codifies existing practice, rather than defining "anticipating" > standards, so things get only into LSB if they are already > commonplace in distributions. Currently, Python 2.4 is widely > available in Linux distributions; Python 2.5 is not and (apparently) > will not be included in the next RHEL release (which apparently > is coming soon). > > So it looks like LSB will standardize on Python 2.4 (which will also > be the default version in the next Debian release). > > Regards, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/nnorwitz%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
