On Wed, May 29, 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Peter> Python 1.5.2 is still very important and even the latest Red Hat > Peter> distributions still use it. > > I think the RedHat/1.5.2 thing is (or should soon be) a red herring. In my > message I suggested a two-year/four-release deprecation schedule. That > could easily be adjusted depending on what RH decides to do: > > Research Triangle Park, NC (AP) - RedHat Software announced today that > it plans to release RedHat 7.77 during the first week of October 2018. > Significant new end user software shipped with this release will include > XFree86 17.1.7 and gcc 5.2. Python 1.5.2 has proven amazingly stable > however, and too many people rely on it, so it will not be phased out in > favor of the current version of Python, 3.15, which was released in > August of 2016. This is ridiculous. Think about this: how long after ANSI C was released did Python continue to support K&R? That should give you a feeling for long it should take to continue to support old releases for core features. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "In the end, outside of spy agencies, people are far too trusting and willing to help." --Ira Winkler
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