Re: [sympy] Re: Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-04-15 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Aaron Meurer asmeu...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't looked at it in a while. How easy is it to support the more complicated things like metaclasses with a common code base? Has anyone compiled a list of the trickiest things to support in a common code base?

[sympy] Re: Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-04-14 Thread hacman0
Ubuntu 8.04 has not reached end of life yet (it does this year, though) and has 2.5 as the system Python. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases for details. RedHat 5 reaches EOL in 2020 and still runs 2.4. See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/#Life_Cycle_Dates for

Re: [sympy] Re: Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-04-14 Thread Matthew Rocklin
That is a thorough and well worded response. Thank you. 2.5 often frustrates me but you've just changed my vote. I think we should continue to support 2.5. It seems to be mostly just an inconvenience. On Apr 14, 2013 12:26 PM, hacm...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu 8.04 has not reached end of life

Re: [sympy] Re: Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-04-14 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Matthew Rocklin mrock...@gmail.com wrote: That is a thorough and well worded response. Thank you. 2.5 often frustrates me but you've just changed my vote. I think we should continue to support 2.5. It seems to be mostly just an inconvenience. This

Re: [sympy] Re: Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-04-14 Thread Aaron Meurer
There's also the argument that was raised the last time we talked about this, which is that Python 2.5 is no longer supported at all by the core Python, even for security updates. By the way, the App Engine supports 2.7 now, so that is less of an issue (though to be sure, we haven't even been

Re: [sympy] Re: Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-04-14 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Aaron Meurer asmeu...@gmail.com wrote: There's also the argument that was raised the last time we talked about this, which is that Python 2.5 is no longer supported at all by the core Python, even for security updates. By the way, the App Engine supports

Re: [sympy] Re: Is anyone dying to use these 2.6+ only features?

2013-04-14 Thread Aaron Meurer
I haven't looked at it in a while. How easy is it to support the more complicated things like metaclasses with a common code base? Has anyone compiled a list of the trickiest things to support in a common code base? Except for the things involving strings and standard library stuff, there's a