Dennis Lee Bieber, 21.12.2011 17:48:
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:15:46 +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
What's the general consensus on supporting Python 2.5 nowadays?
Do people still have to use this in commercial environments or is
everyone on 2.6+ nowadays?
I was recently laid-off from a program that is still using Python 2.3 [...]
That reminds me: we shouldn't forget about embedded Python installations.
They are usually somewhere between "very hard" and "impossible" to upgrade,
also because they often use vendor supplied binary packages for plugin
APIs. I've recently seen that in a FrontArena installation (basically a
trading platform) that had an embedded Py2.3 for scripting. It wasn't
exactly the cutting-edge release, but the users of these platforms tend to
be pretty conservative with their upgrades, and the time it takes the
vendor to upgrade to a new embedded Python version can be similarly long.
That means it can take several years before an embedded 2.7 hits the end
users, during which anything can happen, from "vendor switches from Python
to Lua" to "vendor goes bankrupt" (or maybe just one after the other).
Stefan
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