José Matos wrote: > On Saturday 03 May 2014 07:27:51 Benjamin Piwowarski wrote: >> Yes, but it would be good not to use it, in order to support OS X systems >> more ancient than the current one - they are running python 2.5-2.6. >> >> benjamin > > python 2.7 was released on July of 2010. The next version of lyx will be > available probably on 2016, late 2015 at best (taking into account the > previous releases). > > If we go with python 2.7 we will be able to support python 2 and python 3 > with the same code base, using a python version version released more than > 5 years ago. Doing this while retaining support for previous versions will > be an harder work that will be thrown out in the next version. > > My proposal is then to support both python 2.7 and 3.3+. For those that > have python 3.1 and 3.2 (no one in his right mind should be using python > 3.0) they will probably also have python 2.7 so our bases are covered > there.
This plan looks sensible. As far as OS X 10.7 is concerned: https://www.python.org/download/mac claims that you can install their binary packages in parallel to the system python, so if anybody really wants to use a current version of LyX on a 5 year old OS, the he could as well do the extra work and install an additional python package. Georg
