Re: python version

On Feb 25, 2005, at 11:17 AM, will guaraldi wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>
>> Is there any compelling reason not to just jump to 2.3?  2.3.0 was 
>> released on 7/29/2003, so it's been around for quite some time.
>
> I heard two comments in regards to upping our Python requirement to 
> 2.2:
>
> %<-------------------------
> Posted by Jason McBrayer at Tue Feb 22 08:55:30 2005
> I'm excited about the idea of using pyblosxom on something other than 
> CGI. Specifically, I'd like to use it on fastcgi.  I had toyed with 
> the idea of doing a fastcgi handler for it myself, but never got 
> around to it.
>
> As for the python 2.2 requirement:  I had a look at a couple of more 
> conservative linux distributions to see what they're bundling.  RH 
> Enterprise Linux seems to be on 2.2.3, which is fine.  Debian stable, 
> however is on 2.1.3.  I don't know how many people that would affect.
>
>
> Posted by Cleopus at Wed Feb 23 01:38:30 2005
> Debian stable has python 2.2.1, it's just not the default python (you 
> can have 2.1 and 2.2 installed concurrently).
>
> Just go with python2.2+. It's been out for ages, and it's not like 
> it's hard to build for people with stone age installs.
> %<-------------------------
>
> But that's all the data I have.
>
> I think I want to be less aggressive.  I think instead of asking 
> whether there is a reason for not jumping to 2.3, it's better to ask 
> if there's a reason for jumping to 2.3.  While it's been out since 
> 2003, that's not that long ago.  SourceForge only recently upgraded 
> from 1.5.2, for example.  So if I had my druthers, I'd leave the 
> requirement at 2.2 unless we have a pressing need to jump to 2.3.
>
> Anyone else want to chime in on this?

2.3 has a lot of conveniences, but the vast majority of it can be 
emulated in 2.2 either by __future__ statements or extra modules.

-bob



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