On 2013-04-13, Georg Baum wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Stephan Witt wrote: >>> > What's the status of python 3 on fedora/debian/suse?
>>> On my Mac (latest version Mac OS X 10.8.3) the default is 2.7.2. >> Default is not so important, important is 3.x availability, we have >> mostly working selection mechanism thanks to Enrico. > 3.2.1 is available in debian squeeze (the current stable version). Since > debian is usually the most outdated linux distro it should not be a problem > to require python 3 if it is avialable on OS X as well. If we stay with > python 2 I'd say that 2.6 is a safe minimum requirement. This could be > raised to 2.7 as soon as RHEL 7 and debian wheezy are released. > BTW I don't see any maintenance burden if we stay with version 2 for another > year or so, as long as we don't support both versions at the same time. I propose to keep supporting 2.x until: * the minimum requirement is 2.7 (i.e. 2.7 is available in Debian/stable), AND * the majority of Python installations defaults to Python 3. I suppose, there is no need to raise the minimum requirement to 2.7 unless we start supporting 3.x. Günter
