Re: [gentoo-python] Killing CPython 2.5, 3.1 and PyPy 1.9

[Brian Dolbec]

On Sun, 2013-08-04 at 11:01 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello, folks.
>

> I think we should start dropping support for really old
> implementations. PyPy 1.9 probably has most of the agreement already.
>
> For CPython 2.5, it's mostly virtual/pil giving me creeps. Since old
> imaging does not support 3.3 and PIL does not support 2.5, there is no
> way all impls could be satisfied with the virtual. So I dropped 2.5
> from my PYTHON_TARGETS a while ago and I don't test packages against it
> anymore.
>

I had to drop 2.5 from my targets as well, pkgs are starting to fail
with it as more are dropping 2.5 support.  the current layman-2.0.0
supports 2.5 which was used by some embedded devs, but it will be the
last one I support with layman.  Next minor version will be 2.6+.

Yeah time to drop 2.5

> For CPython 3.1, I guess nobody really cares about it. At least I don't
> recall a single reason to keep it.
>

Yeah, nuke 3.1 it has compatibility issues with other 2.x and 3.x
releases.  Several app-portage pkgs had to drop support for 3.1 due to
that.  Upstream even dropped support for it.

> What do you think?
>
> (of course, we'd have to ensure updated PYTHON_TARGETS prior to killing)
>

-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>