On 7/18/11 1:35 PM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote: > By "supporting" here, I mean going out of our way to provide binary > eggs of dependencies, and actively soliciting people to run > buildslaves. > > Let's do those things only for Python 2.7, and not for other versions > of Python, on Windows. Also let's maintain all of our docs describing > Python 2.7 on Windows.
Sounds good to me. > As for what versions of Python we support on all other platforms than > Windows, I propose that we continue our long-standing tradition of > supporting everything from Python 2.4.4 up to 2.7. Also good by me. I'm slowly building a list of things we could clean up if we were to drop e.g. 2.4 or 2.5 support, but it isn't very big yet. My biggest motivating factor for supporting a given python release is which large distributions still ship with it. Ubuntu's oldest supported LTS is Hardy (8.04) with python2.5.2, Debian's stable (squeeze) is py2.6.6, and OS-X (as of yesterday)'s oldest is Snow Leopard (10.6) with py2.6.1 . So let's defer the py2.4 question for another six months. Ubuntu will support Hardy (on server) until mid-2013, and after that I'd be happy to drop py2.5 support. cheers, -Brian _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
