> On 9 April 2011 16:19, Kenneth Loafman <
address@hidden <mailto:
address@hidden>> wrote:
>
> The RedHat folks are on a 6-year support cycle, so the minimum Python we need to support is 2.4 for now and will move up as time goes on. It's a pain, but we do have a fair number of them out in the wild, so we should not drop support. In my opinion, a 6-year old system is probably dangerous to have around, even if patched, but some businesses do just that.
>
>
> In the course of testing some changes against Python 2.4, I was remembering this conversation. I looked up RHEL Python versions [1] and end-of-life phases [2].
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> Which end-of-life phase do you want duplicity to target?
>
> If it's the normal 7-year phase, that means we should support 2.4 through early 2014 (and actually, that we should still be supporting 2.3).
>
> There are other phases of end-of-life (4 and 5 years each) you could target if you wanted to be more aggressive and a longer phase (10 years) if you wanted to be more conservative.
>
> [1]
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhat
> [2]
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/
>