From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 511E21381F3 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:10:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19E57E0AF6; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f173.google.com (mail-lb0-f173.google.com [209.85.217.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 71913E0AF6 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:10:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f173.google.com with SMTP id 10so1936804lbf.4 for ; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 03:10:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DBWwphbdrqlFi26hMOqepPLJQctJeZeQpeSeaA4/Reo=; b=sAgmhO3HkdUENVk8A6k1QsF423PxcSMxR3+lCuRX1GTn/drSMOArSJVW+C95EuxXDG 6264e22msdds08OoAP5YkZULvdgNEch4Xagak4+kf2be13J8/s27USa9TyYZMLNEqLEL AuKHrC+HX3qonHiHhSTW23rJwbY8tIq/qkKS5OkUo1a+M3yXhqzKiw7od5+UIJkp3yOC sgrGTdt8Be9n2zvQz+GHAO0URP7FdTbg2MJZY6lPPMX59bvmzs1Hf6hbscowMlSqWNX6 ldXAoEgzKW54gm4T5ywjdd0OioUQLNoOs6SbQ3fmGXnneun5J8AEmm/k/IwJO+m1quzb cndg== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Discussions centering around the Python ecosystem in Gentoo Linux X-BeenThere: gentoo-python@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-python@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.158.228 with SMTP id wx4mr8594565lbb.29.1375697409740; Mon, 05 Aug 2013 03:10:09 -0700 (PDT) Sender: marien.zwart@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.154.34 with HTTP; Mon, 5 Aug 2013 03:10:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201308050533.27693.Arfrever.FTA@gmail.com> References: <20130804110158.5c28d9d4@gentoo.org> <201308050533.27693.Arfrever.FTA@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 20:10:09 +1000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4OW6O_9Kp9O3eMvT6OdWyzWaY48 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-python] Re: Killing CPython 2.5, 3.1 and PyPy 1.9 From: Marien Zwart To: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis Cc: gentoo-python@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: d930505d-e0a0-4c8f-a092-10fc2f1a83e2 X-Archives-Hash: 90d4941e655823034d5759c9cb774747 On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: > 2013-08-04 13:27 Marien Zwart napisa=C5=82(a): >> 3.2 is the special long-term-supported ABI release > > No. Each branch X.Y (except 3.0) has general bug fix support until a X.Y.= * release some time relatively > shortly before or after release of X.(Y+1).0 and security fix support for= 5 years after release of X.Y.0. I was (rather imprecisely) referring to PEP 384. Although there is Py_LIMITED_API I could see people wanting to actually build against 3.2 to make sure code trying to make use of this additional backwards compatibility actually is backwards compatible. --=20 Marien Zwart (marienz)