Re: [Duplicity-talk] Python 3

[edgar . soldin]

On 22.08.2011 15:00, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 2011/8/22 Michael Terry <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
> 
>     2011/8/22 Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
> 
>         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.
> 
> 
> Does the 2.5 version of tarfile.py work properly?  I would like to use the 
> library version, but I had troubles when I tried it on 2.5 a while back.
>  
> 
>         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.
> 
> 
> We really ought to ask the users, but my guess is that we don't have too many 
> stuck on 2.4 and below.
> 

we should make a clean cut and say .. 0.7 now, it only supports python 2.7 up.. 
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