[Xapian-discuss] Dropping support for python 2.2

[Kevin Duraj]

I would like to drop python support entirely and rather focus on
important issues.
-- 
Kevin Duraj
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Richard Boulton
<richard at lemurconsulting.com> wrote:
> We're planning to drop support for python 2.2 in the 1.1.0 release.
>
> The Python 2.2 release series last had a release nearly 5 years ago, and
> is now essentially unsupported by upstream (there is a security patch
> for the latest release (2.2.3) listed on the download page, but they
> haven't gone to the trouble of rolling a release based on it).
>
> We don't normally support bindings for versions of languages which are
> not supported upstream, but python 2.2 has "just worked" for a while, so
> there's been no reason to get rid of it.
>
> Currently, xapian still works with python 2.2, but it is beginning to
> show signs of becoming a maintenance headache, and I expect this burden
> to increase over the next year.  In particular, we will shortly be
> starting work on supporting python 3.0, which is a fairly major update;
> supporting python 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 in parallel with 3.0 is going to be
> enough  work.
>
> If anyone is still using 2.2, and desperately wants us to continue to
> support it in the 1.1.0 release, now is the time to make your case!
>
> --
> Richard
>
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