On Feb 8, 2011, at 2:17 AM, LightDot wrote: > It has to happen sooner or later, I guess. The main problem I see are RHEL / > CentOS 5 users with stock python. > > Debian Etch also has python 2.4 but I guess that's not a problem any more. > Ubuntu 8.04 LTS users are in the clear (python 2.5). > > What I would do is make any crucial bug fixes needed for the current code (no > new features), release it and than bump version to 2.x, announcing the python > 2.4 incompatibility. Something like that. Then I would keep a separate python > 2.4 compatible download link hidden somewhere. > > In this way, any potential users of python 2.4 would have a reasonably stable > web2py they can live with for the long term.
Alternatively, a simple recipe for moving to a later Python. > > Hm. Who knows... perhaps there aren't any such users..?
