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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: arfrever@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Deprecation of Python 2.4
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:07:08
Message-Id: 4A9A430D.8050605@gentoo.org
1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
2 > Python 2.4 is deprecated. There are plans to mask for removal it when
3 > remaining packages incompatible with Python 2.5 are fixed.
4 > (We will announce masking of Python 2.4 at least 1 month before masking it.)
5 >
6 > Please don't add new packages to the tree which work only with Python 2.4.
7 >
8 > If you want to add a package which depends on a Python module, which had been
9 > maintained separately in the past, but has been also included in Python 2.5,
10 > then don't add this Python module to the tree only for use with Python 2.4,
11 > but instead depend on Python >=2.5.
12 >
13
14 Where's the CC and Reply-To to gentoo-dev? Does removing python 2.4 have
15 any effect on the upgrade path for old installations?
16
17 Regards,
18 Petteri

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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Deprecation of Python 2.4 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Deprecation of Python 2.4 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o>