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Hi all,
I'd like to bring a discussion that was started over irc for broader
audience. Namely:
1) how long are we supposed to keep old version of Python in Portage?
2) how many version should we actively maintained?
What came up:
* python2.5 is no longer supported upstream since May 2011 and is first
candidate for purging
* python3.2 supersedes python3.1 without introducing any obvious
incompatibilities (at least that's what they claim here[1])
What's worth noting is that upstream itself will provide/provides new
release cycle, introducing LTS version of python[2]. First proposal by
neurogeek, is that following pep0407 we should obsolete versions of
python 6 months after upstream ceases to support them. (+1 from me on that)
Cheers
Kacper
[1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/
[2] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0407/
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