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On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 7:01 AM, Kacper Kowalik wrote: |
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> On 30.04.2012 22:13, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 20:17, Kacper Kowalik <xarthisius@g.o (mailto:xarthisius@g.o)> wrote: |
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> > > 1) how long are we supposed to keep old version of Python in Portage? |
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> > > 2) how many version should we actively maintained? |
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> > I'm not sure we need hard rules here. IMO the current approach (i.e. |
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> > just talking about it and dropping as we decide it makes sense) is |
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> > just fine. In particular, some version bumps are just harder than |
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> > others, and adoption of new versions is always different (i.e. for 3.x |
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> > and 2.x versions is obviously a very different story right now). From |
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> > the other side (for example, in Mercurial depends), it also depends |
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> > how big of a boon new features are. |
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> > So let's just decide on a case-by-case when we deprecate a version? As |
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> > for 2.5, are we seeing increased incompatibility yet? Any recent |
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> > examples? I think 2.5 is close to deprecation, but I'm personally not |
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> > getting the impression it's getting to be a big PITA just yet. |
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> 10% of packages that restrict Python abi in any way, restrict 2.5 (I've |
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> grepped for "\(2.\[45\]\|2.5\)") That's the only statistics I could |
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> I'm not aware of any security bugs related to 2.5 branch |
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I raised the same question a couple of months ago, just to get a discussion going on what we consider "deprecated". Python 2.5 is one of those versions that actually work pretty well, so it will probably be here for a long time. A perhaps better way of looking at this is how many packages that depend explicitly on 2.5 to work and understand why upstream stays there. |
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For me as a fellow package bumper, I'd say that 2.5 is still good to go. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Kacper |
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Thanks, |
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Johan |