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On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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> 2012/2/20 Johan Bergström <bugs@××××××××××.nu>: |
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>> Good day all, |
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>> with Python 2.4 being removed and all (anyone seen complaints about this, btw?), |
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>> I'd like to discuss the removal of Python 2.5. |
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>> Although 2.5 was one of those versions that started to be useful, I really see no |
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>> reason to just keep it around "just because". |
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>> Did a quick glance in the tree and couldn't find a package that only depended |
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>> on python:2.5 specifically. Please correct me if I'm wrong. |
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>> |
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>> The question is therefore: why keep python 2.5 in tree? |
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>> |
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>> Regards, |
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>> -- |
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>> Johan Bergström |
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> |
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> We might be making the upgrade path for ancient systems more |
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> difficult. python-2.5 has EAPI=1 whereas python-2.6 has EAPI=2. I |
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> don't feel this is a show stopper. |
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It needs to stay at least until the baselayout 1 to 2 upgrade path is |
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still supported. I think that ends in June. I kinda like 2.5, its mmap |
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bits are better than newer versions, perhaps due to heavy patching. |
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sles and rhel5 still support it, maybe there are nice patches in those |
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repos. |
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</$0.02> |
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Matthew W. Summers |
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Gentoo Foundation Inc. |
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