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On 24.07.2015 11:00, Stefan Hett wrote:
> In case that helps with the decision making process:
> Debian 5.0 (lenny - no longer supported): py 2.5
> Debian 6.0 (squeeze - current oldoldstable): py2.6
> Debian 7.0/8.0/9.0 (wheezy/jessie/stretch - currently
> oldstable/stable/testing): py2.7
The "very old enterprise versions" are probably RHEL 6 and SuSE 10; both
are still in wide use.
> So even this very conservative Linux distribution is supporting py2.7
> for the past two years (and with the backporting branch I assume even
> squeeze supports 2.7 which would make it a supported platform for the
> pat 4 years on that distribution).
>
> Source:
> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all
>> On 23.07.2015 17:01, Bert Huijben wrote:
>>> I like this proposal... but I'm wondering in what case Linux build
>>> environments need python. Those very old enterprise versions are
>>> unlikely to have python 2.7 or newer.
>>
>> When building from a tarball, you only need Python to run the test suite.
>>
>> There are certain edge cases in the Python syntax where it's almost
>> impossible to be compatible with both 2.5/2.6 and 3.x. Because of
>> that, and because 2.6 is no longer supporter by the Python devs, it
>> makes sense to stop supporting those versions in 1.9/trunk.
>>
>> Those very old enterprise versions will just have to be upgraded, IMO.
>>
>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> From: Branko Čibej <mailto:brane_at_wandisco.com>
>>> Sent: 23-7-2015 11:02
>>> To: dev_at_subversion.apache.org
>>> Subject: Re: 1.9.0 minimal Python version
>>>
>>> On 23.07.2015 10:30, Stefan Hett wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> >>>> - For 1.9, it's a little late to make any changes, but I would
>>> >>>> consider
>>> >>>> dropping py2.5 support (and converting to the 'except' 'as'
>>> >>>> syntax),
>>> >>>> since for 1.9 py3 support is more important than py2.5 support.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Thoughts?
>>> >> I'd rather not mess with the 1.9 branch at this point ... we're
>>> so close
>>> >> to the release (I hope).
>>> >>
>>> >> -- Brane
>>> > as a thought for the 1.9 case:
>>> > In case you do not want to drop py2.5 support for 1.9 because it's
>>> > released stating that minimum support already, would it be an option
>>> > to still support py3 in a following patch (1.9.1)? For instance by
>>> > providing py-script versions for older as well as later versions?
>>> >
>>> > Reasoning would be that given that SVN-versions have a lifetime of
>>> > roughly 2 years before the successive version is released it'd be
>>> > quite a limitation if that'd only work with a very old python
>>> version...
>>> >
>>> > As an alternative approach: You'd also consider mentioning a minimum
>>> > requirement of python 2.6 just in the docs (no code changes yet) and
>>> > then release 1.9.1 with the actual "fixes". So technically then even
>>> > post release you would not change the minimal system requirements.
>>> >
>>> > (just some thoughts from a user's point of view, if that input would
>>> > be of any benefit)
>>>
>>> Daniel and I have just been chatting about this on IRC, and we agreed
>>> that it makes sense to just drop 2.5/2.6 support for 1.9 and trunk; the
>>> proposal is that we declare support for 2.7, and at some point make
>>> 1.9.x and trunk compatible with both 2.7 and 3.x.
>>>
>>> -- Brane
>>
>
Received on 2015-07-24 11:27:58 CEST