Yaakov,
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 02:55:23AM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> What are your plans for upgrading the distro Python to 2.6?
I was waiting for Cygwin 1.7 to be released. I guess I can't use that
excuse anymore... :,)
> I'm finally starting to see some programs require 2.6 now, so I think
> the time has finally come that to consider an upgrade.
Agreed, especially since the Python web site indicates the following:
The current production versions are Python 2.6.4 and Python 3.1.1.
> Of course, any upgrade to Python affects a lot of packages,
Wow, I didn't realize there were so many Cygwin packages dependent on
Python:
$ wget -q -O - http://mirror.nyi.net/cygwin/setup.ini | \
grep '^requires:.* python' setup.ini | wc -l
54
> so I hope that we can coordinate this in order to have a smooth
> transition.
What do you propose? Should I release a Python 2.6 as experimental, use
alternatives, or another approach?
BTW, is the threading workaround mentioned in the following post still
necessary?
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-07/msg00831.html
Thanks,
Jason
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