I'm planning to "officially" drop support for Python 1.5.2 in the logging package.
When the logging package was introduced in Python 2.3, many Linux distros were shipping 1.5.2 as the system's Python, even though 2.2 had been out for a while. So it seemed important to support 1.5.2 for those sysadmins who wanted to use logging with their system Python. The Linux landscape has changed a bit since then. Most Linux distros ship with much more recent versions of Python, and so I no longer see 1.5.2 support as important. Dropping support for 1.5.2 means that future changes to logging will not be concerned with 1.5.2 compatibility. For example, boolean values which were 0/1 in the logging package will at some point be replaced by False/True, and newer language features will start to be used when changes are made. There are no plans for a specific "cleanup" exercise at the moment. In fact some changes made a while ago inadvertently broke 1.5.2 compatibility, but no-one's complained. So I'm assuming the whole thing is really a non-issue, and this post is just to keep everyone in the picture. A 1.5.2-compatible version of the package is still available via http://www.red-dove.com/python_logging.html if anyone needs it. This version is not actively maintained, but that shouldn't be an issue. Regards, Vinay Sajip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
