Retiring Python 2.4 and 2.5

Sean Farley sean at macports.org
Tue Sep 16 07:51:53 PDT 2014


Frank Schima writes:

> On Sep 15, 2014, at 7:56 PM, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to adapt Ned Deily's patches for Yosemite[1] to the Python ports. Adapting them to all the Python 3.x ports was tedious enough, but now I've made it to Python 2.4 and 2.5. I feel like I'm slapping bandages onto patients who have been brain-dead for 5.74 and 3.31 years, respectively.
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>>    [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue21811
>
> Yes, remove them. We have talked about and even made progress towards removing python 2.4 in the past. 

Apparently, I am the only one still using them (for testing purposes).


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