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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Deprecation of Python 2.4
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:30:09
Message-Id: 200908302040.45607.Arfrever@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Deprecation of Python 2.4 by "Petteri Räty"
1 2009-08-30 11:14:53 Petteri Räty napisał(a):
2 > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
3 > > Python 2.4 is deprecated. There are plans to mask for removal it when
4 > > remaining packages incompatible with Python 2.5 are fixed.
5 > > (We will announce masking of Python 2.4 at least 1 month before masking it.)
6 > >
7 > > Please don't add new packages to the tree which work only with Python 2.4.
8 > >
9 > > If you want to add a package which depends on a Python module, which had been
10 > > maintained separately in the past, but has been also included in Python 2.5,
11 > > then don't add this Python module to the tree only for use with Python 2.4,
12 > > but instead depend on Python >=2.5.
13 > >
14 >
15 > Where's the CC and Reply-To to gentoo-dev? Does removing python 2.4 have
16 > any effect on the upgrade path for old installations?
17
18 sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 should work with Python 2.5 and probably also 2.6.
19 sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7 works with Python 2.5 and 2.6.
20 >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 works with Python 2.5 and 2.6 and doesn't work with Python 2.4.
21
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23 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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