Re: python version support

On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 01:45:17 +0100
Irmen de Jong <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Irmen,
 
> I'm slowly considering dropping support for Python 2.6 and Jython.
> 
> Various reasons
> - python 2.6 is getting ancient

Yep, very old and not anymore used in stable Linux branches AFAIK.

> - jython development has slowed to a crawl unfortunately, the released
> 2.7 still has many issues, beta versions pf next release only come in
> a trickle

I do not use it, my religion forbids it ("thou shall never ever install
evilish java related stuffs on the holy laptop of yours").

> - I prefer not to be burdened by this anymore and have a solid python
> 2.7 as minimum compatible and supported version

Concentrating on current branches seems wise.

Jean-Yves

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