Re: Move to python 2.2 as default release?
Okay, I (and several other people) are confused. What does
'the next default python' and 'skipping 2.2 entirely' that Chris Lawrence
writes mean?
If typing apt-get is the hardest technical thing you ever do, I want
you to get 2.2, not 2.1 or 2.3 when you decide to get Python. Also, I
want developers to know the answer to the question 'what Python
version should I develop for to best reach my intended audience of
everybody who isn't another bleeding edge Python developer' is also 2.2.
Laura Creighton
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 03:25:01PM +0200, Laura Creighton wrote:
> > >>On Aug 06, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> > >>As the new upstream of python-gnome (for GNOME 2) needs python 2.2 for
> > >>building I am wondering when python 2.2 will get the default version
> > >>for Debian. Any insights?
> > >
> > >I believe a consensus was reached on debian-python that we would move
> > >to Python 2.3 as the next default Python, skipping 2.2 entirely.
> > >
> > >
> > >My recommendation would be to separately maintain a python
> > >2.2-compatible python-gnome and a <2.1 compatible version, at least
> > >until the 2.3 release.
> > >
> > >
> > >Chris
> > >--
> > >Chris Lawrence <cnlawren@olemiss.edu> - http://www.lordsutch.com/chris/
> > >
> > >Instructor and Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, Univ. of Mississippi
> > >208 Deupree Hall - 662-915-5765
> >
> > The new Python Business Forum (www.python-in-business.com) is
> > collaborating with the Python developers to produce Python-in-a-Tie,
> > a business-targetted release of Python. This is a 'Sumo-Release',
> > which will include other useful Python libraries and programs which
> > are not part of the standard Python releases. What we want is a release we
> > tell our cyustomers to run which will give them 18 months or so
> > during which there is no need for them, as users, not developers, to
> > upgrade a to a newer version of Python. Then we will target a next
> > release, and to be the next Python-in-a-Tie. I am the Chairman of
> > the Python-in-a-Tie SIG, and the Python-in-a-Tie release is going
> > to be based on 2.2, not 2.1 or 2.3. Thus 2.2 is the release which
> > we are telling Python developers is the release which they should
> > write for. Therefore I think that skipping the 2.2 release in
> > favour of the 2.3 would be a mistake.
> >
> > Please cc any discussion and replies to me since I do not read
> > debian-devel. Thanks very much,
>
> But, this does not say that python2.2 will not be available. It is,
> and, as far as I know, will continue to be. I think that the general
> consensus was that debian would maintain whatever versions we had to,
> if Python-in-a-Tie were packaged in debian, it would mark python2.2 as a
> requirement, and until said package was either rewritten to use
> python2.3+, or removed from the archive, it would be impossible to
> remove python2.2. Nor is it much of a pain for a developer: scripts
> being /usr/bin/python2.2, rather than just /usr/bin/python. Your group
> does not even need to be aware of this; this is something the debian
> developer should be taking care of.
>
> There has been dicussion of removing python1.5. But this is because
> there are very few packages left that depend on it. Debian does not
> historically remove packages easily or without thought.
>
> Jim Penny
> >
> > Laura Creighton
> >
> >
> >
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