Re: Python version auditing followup

esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:

That was the first of three patches I have promised.  In order to do
the next one, which will be a development guidelines recommend
compatibility back to some specific version X, I need a policy
decision.  How do we set X?

I don't think X can be < 2.4, nor does it need to be - 2.4 came out
in 2004 and eight years is plenty of deployment time.

The later we set it, the more convenient for developers.  But of
course by setting it late we trade away some portability to 
older systems.

In previous discussion of this issue I recommended X = 2.6.
That is still my recommendation. Thoughts, comments, objections?

I personally would think 2.6 is recent enough.  Which platforms that
are long-term-maintained by their vendors still pin their Python at
2.4.X?  2.4.6 was in 2008 that was source only, 2.4.4 was in late
2006 that was the last 2.4 with binary release.

Objections?  Comments?