From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Python version auditing followup Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:39:17 -0800 Message-ID: <7vzk182yka.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20121220143411.BEA0744105@snark.thyrsus.com> <7vobho60fs.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Joachim Schmitz" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 20 22:39:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tlnq6-00029v-Om for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:39:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751299Ab2LTVjV (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:39:21 -0500 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:41392 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751060Ab2LTVjU (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:39:20 -0500 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB90F9FF5; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:39:19 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=n+FEj8t2pOoY8Kka0DCoddCAb18=; b=YX4NFS 1//xHF0TW+bOYh/OjWhq6Cf+KK/2zH3rE1bgwpUT19STr6/LRQ4ZFoT/UKb/4kRd 4Nbyrj74nLVrMIUpqHJG4tz3SIxu9CObJ3i2l1wFBPmfFCukWmpSv/779jtcdDZt NmdQoLz45XWZFi3nM3RKx3iPOTznreTAbSG9E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Fof6v7XkUqts1oUtWic1NwJqYP+8Ip34 C2b+TEO49/ySaT8rKbahy7EqQfD2iwcZrtJe5tn0C2l+3PmalifQC+MXGHsR55M0 uQna/kWUG0lqS5pUt3qwblJdTSqdMqzAMhfOYxxWUDssm2IKyB3rWkJbbnvXObaG r0CDtAf99z4= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8D919FF4; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:39:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [98.234.214.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 27CB99FF3; Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:39:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Joachim Schmitz's message of "Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:30:30 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: B5C3216C-4AED-11E2-9594-F0CE2E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: "Joachim Schmitz" writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> I personally would think 2.6 is recent enough. Which platforms that >> are long-term-maintained by their vendors still pin their Python at >> 2.4.X? 2.4.6 was in 2008 that was source only, 2.4.4 was in late >> 2006 that was the last 2.4 with binary release. >> >> Objections? Comments? > > We have a working 2.4.2 for HP-NonStop and some major problems getting > 2.7.3 to work. I do not think a platform that stops at 2.4.2 instead of going to higher 2.4.X series deserves to be called "long term maintained by their vendors". It sounds more like "attempted to supply 2.4.X and abandoned the users once onee port was done" to me.