Python 2.4

[Joshua Root]

On 2012-1-19 12:08 , Dan Ports wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 06:43:11PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Since there used to exist a py-paver port based on python24, you should not set python.default_version 27; you should leave python.default_version at its default value of 24.
> 
> Maybe it's time for us to consider dropping support for Python 2.4.
> It's more than five years out of date and it's increasingly common to
> find modules that don't support it.
> 
> Admittedly, the benefit to removing the py24 ports is pretty small, but
> I've seen people confused about the fact that py-foo is the python 2.4
> version and they need to install a versioned port like py27-foo instead
> to get what they really want. It'd be nice to eliminate that.
> 
> (In fact, it's arguably even worse that now installing py-foo usually
> gives you py24-foo if it exists, sometimes gives you py27-foo, and
> occasionally gives you something different entirely. We ought to make
> the stub ports do something more consistent, or even just give an error
> when trying to install the stub.)

The idea was that once all python24 modules are changed to py24-foo and
there are no more dependencies on py-foo, the default can change (most
likely to 27).

- Josh