On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 08:43:54AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > I think it makes sense to drop python 2.4 right now. It seems the only > reason anyone deals with it is that there is a culture of running > particular ancient versions of Linux and only using the builtin python > support (I find this totally boggling, but it's what I observe). I'm hesitant about this because the plone and zope packages seem to need this version. > 2.5 does not feel so ancient and crufty that it should be summarily > dismissed. On the other hand, in pkgsrc there is five packages that claim to work with 25 and not with 26 or newer. That's not a critical mass :) > Some of these are probably candidates for removal on their own merits -- > if they pass one of the tests "it's reasonable to tell users that they > are lame for not having upgraded" or "it is unmaintained for so long > (multiple years) that no reasonable person should still be using it". > I suspect databases/gramps is an example of the first, and maybe gramps2 > (but maybe not). We have gramps3 in pkgsrc, so I don't have problems with removing these two. Thomas