2011/8/22 Kenneth Loafman
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I'm not in favor of supporting 2.4 that much longer, but I believe we
should watch out for using 2.7's tarfile since it probably is not
compatible with 2.4.
Agreed. If I did that, I'd have to make some changes to be compatible.
When does Python 2.4 sunset for Ubuntu and Debian?
It already has. Debian stable (their oldest supported release) has 2.6. Ubuntu 8.04 (the oldest supported LTS through April 2013) has 2.5. The latest LTS has 2.6.
Ubuntu LTS releases last for 5 years, which isn't so much better than 6, but does seem to include newer versions in practice.
-mt