On Friday 12 April 2013 12:35:57 Pavel Sanda wrote: > You are the pythonist here > P
:-) The issue is what is the minimum version of python that we want to support. If we decide to stay with python 2 as the default version the question then becomes what is the minimum version we want to support. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python the minimum version of python that we are using now has been released more than 8 years ago. * Python 2.0 - October 16, 2000 * Python 2.1 - April 17, 2001 * Python 2.2 - December 21, 2001 * Python 2.3 - July 29, 2003 * Python 2.4 - November 30, 2004 * Python 2.5 - September 19, 2006 * Python 2.6 - October 1, 2008 * Python 2.7 - July 3, 2010 The main differences between 2.6 and 2.7 is that 2.7 simplifies more the transition process to python 3. The political decision that we need to make is what is the minimum standard we want to set for the python version. For example python 2.7 is only available for wheezy that will be debian 7.0 as well for RHEL 7 that we will be out soon. Both the most up to date current stable versions of these two distributions, that we have used as reference in the past, only carry currently python 2.6. I would expect that they will only switch to python3 by default in 5 years or so (a forecast done with my usual optimism). So these are the facts. The question then is how do we want to proceed? -- José Abílio
