On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:40:09PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Josselin Mouette writes: > > Le vendredi 13 janvier 2006 à 15:31 +0100, Matthias Klose a écrit : > > > - beeing able to support more python versions in a separate archive > > > is not just aesthetic (although not needed in the distribution, > > > but often requested on python-dvel). > > More python versions? You mean, a separate archive with a different > > python version as the default? > developers did express the need to test their application with > different python versions. A separate archive could be used for such a > setup. The default python version doesn't matter, as we do want to > move away from that dependency.
I for one have a lot of old python scripts here and there (I administrate a bunch of different old servers) and almost always a python version change requires me to fix some scripts to the new syntax or api. I have faced these upgrade problems for atleast 1.5 -> 2.0 -> 2.1 -> 2.3 -> 2.4. Based on this experience I really would prefer to continue to use multiple python versions at the same time so that I have time to audit old scripts properly. I do not know how burdensome multiple versions are to package maintainers but I am grateful that they have been available so far.
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