From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RzOz6-000733-8O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:52:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD9E5E08F9; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:52:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE71AE08F9 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:52:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: djc) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 620491B4004 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:52:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr12 with SMTP id dr12so4357101wgb.10 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:52:26 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of djc@gentoo.org designates 10.180.92.165 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.92.165; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of djc@gentoo.org designates 10.180.92.165 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=djc@gentoo.org Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.92.165]) by 10.180.92.165 with SMTP id cn5mr16495917wib.2.1329727946553 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:52:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.92.165 with SMTP id cn5mr13747798wib.2.1329727930241; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:52:10 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.216.3.1 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:51:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <9DBD9C2050C542488A7B46D83B6D31B4@bergstroem.nu> From: Dirkjan Ochtman Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:51:50 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-python] On Python 2.5 To: Matthew Summers Cc: Mike Gilbert , gentoo-python@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 0e04f4f3-9947-48ba-9546-21315a44982c X-Archives-Hash: d8b71220705ba315de335befba6497fd On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:13, Matthew Summers wrote: > It needs to stay at least until the baselayout 1 to 2 upgrade path is > still supported. I think that ends in June. I kinda like 2.5, its mmap > bits are better than newer versions, perhaps due to heavy patching. > sles and rhel5 still support it, maybe there are nice patches in those > repos. June-ish sounds about right to me. Cheers, Dirkjan