Retiring Python 2.4 and 2.5

[Christoph Deil]

On 16 Sep 2014, at 07:44, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Clemens Lang wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> ----- On 16 Sep, 2014, at 03:56, Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there some overwhelmingly good reason we still provide these, given that 2.7
>>> is still alive and kicking? Can we please stop providing them?
>> 
>> If I were you, I'd set a timeout and if nobody argues that we should keep them
>> for a good reason, delete them once the timeout has passed. Probably ask -users,
>> too.
>> 
>> While we're at it, isn't 2.6 unsupported as well?
> 
> Version 2.6 is still useful to allow installing things like
> py26-wxpython-2.8 and py27-wxpython-3.0 side-by-side without
> conflicts. But I totally support removing python 2.4 and 2.5.
> 
> We could limit the use of 2.6 to ports like the one with wxWidgets and
> gradually remove 2.6 from the rest until we retire it completely. (I
> wouldn't oppose removing the ports that still depend on wxPython 2.8 a
> year or two from now.)
> 
> Mojca
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I use the Macports Python 2.6 to test Python packages that support it (most do).
So my vote would be to remove Python 2.4 and 2.5 (which almost no-one uses and supports any more), but to keep Python 2.6.

Christoph