Gentoo Archives: gentoo-python

From: Marien Zwart <marienz@g.o>
To: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-python@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-python] Re: Killing CPython 2.5, 3.1 and PyPy 1.9
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:10:15
Message-Id: CAEWfL_SxkUSensB14KDDDz2Ok4xjN=2Z4qLji9rnA+sDHi0DAg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-python] Re: Killing CPython 2.5, 3.1 and PyPy 1.9 by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
1 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2 <arfrever.fta@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > 2013-08-04 13:27 Marien Zwart napisał(a):
4 >> 3.2 is the special long-term-supported ABI release
5 >
6 > No. Each branch X.Y (except 3.0) has general bug fix support until a X.Y.* release some time relatively
7 > shortly before or after release of X.(Y+1).0 and security fix support for 5 years after release of X.Y.0.
8
9 I was (rather imprecisely) referring to PEP 384. Although there is
10 Py_LIMITED_API I could see people wanting to actually build against
11 3.2 to make sure code trying to make use of this additional backwards
12 compatibility actually is backwards compatible.
13 --
14
15 Marien Zwart (marienz)