Re: Killing python15

[Maurice Nonnekes <maurice@amaze.nl>]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Laurence Tratt wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
> > In short, we keep python15 around because of a single port that, if you
> > check the description, doesn't even provide functionality based on python
> > but only serves to aid development for that obsolete version.
> > In my opinion we should, in order,
> > 1. remove all python1 flavors,
> > 2. disable the python functionality and dependency in devel/swig,
> > 3. kill devel/py-Distutils and lang/python15.
> >
> > Now, I don't use Python, so I may not be the best person to judge this.
> > Comments welcome.
>
> In my opinion, all the python1.5 flavours should die (and py-Distutils), but
> not the port itself. Lots of stuff happened post 1.5 which means for some
> people (not me personally - so I'm neutral here) that 1.5 is the latest
> version they can use since things break for them after that. For example,
> it's only reasonably recently, I think, that Zope supported > 1.5?

I agree. Zope 2.4 (which depends on python 2) is just out, and I think a
lot of people would want to run the older 'stable' version of Zope, which
depends on python 1.5. I know I am one of those people :-)


Regards,
	--Maurice