On Mar 20, 2008, at 11:26 PM, Ben Bangert wrote:
How many Pylons users are still stuck back at Python 2.3? I'm
considering dropping Python 2.3 support from the latest WebHelpers
and am a bit curious just how many people are still using it. From
my own conversations, it seems all the ones I knew running 2.3
jumped straight to 2.5. Any hold-outs? Why? ;)
Me, as Jython trunk is still not 2.5 yet. That will hopefully change
pretty soon, though
I built 2.3 - 2.5 eggs for the XMLLayout package (used for Chainsaw
logging) about 6 months ago, just to get a sense of who's using what.
About 20% of egg downloads have been for 2.3:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/XMLLayout
As a framework I think we need to maintain compatibility with older
versions of Python for as long as we can. Supporting about 3 versions
is pretty good -- I don't mind dropping support for 2.3 when 2.6 is
released (which according to Guido will be in 5 months best case
scenario).
Maintaining 2.3 compatibility isn't all that hard anyway. I don't
think there's anything really compelling in 2.4 that would benefit
the WebHelpers code base, it's just a few added conveniences.
Also Django and CherryPy are also still claiming 2.3 compatibility.
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