On Fri, Apr 05, 2002, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Aahz wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote: >>> Aahz: >>>> >>>> Why can't you realistically desupport pre-2.0? >>> >>> Because 1.5.2 is still most commonly found as the default Python, like >>> it or not. I don't care for 1.4, but 1.5.2 support is a MUST. >> >> <scratch head> I must be missing something here. We're not talking >> about an end-user product, we're talking about a developer tool. What's >> wrong with requiring a Python download for someone who at this point >> wants to *upgrade* vim from the system default? >> >> The default Python for Mandrake 8.1 (*not* the most current version), for >> example, is Python 2.1.1. I don't think Python 1.5.2 is the default >> Python for anything other than Red Hat at the moment, and even if I'm >> wrong about that now, it certainly will be true by the time any new >> version of vim becomes an installed default. > > Python 1.5.2 is still in active use. Some of the extension writers > simply can't drop 1.5.2 because of an active user base still working > with it (either because they are using commercial products built on > top of 1.5.2 or because they like the speed... Python 2.x is slower > than 1.5.2, or because their books still reference the old version). > > Python's release schedule has changed dramatically over the last few > years -- I would expect that the Python 2.0 user base will also last a > few more years. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes -- but why is this a problem for vim? I am not talking about some abstract general case; it looks to me that in this specific case backward compatibility isn't an issue, and I still have not seen any explanation for why I'm wrong. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "There are times when effort is important and necessary, but this should not be taken as any kind of moral imperative." --jdecker
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