[Python-Dev] Pymalloc and backward compatibility (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 12:25:48 -0500

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Aahz:

Why can't you realistically desupport pre-2.0? Because 1.5.2 is still most commonly found as the default Python, like it or not. I don't care for 1.4, but 1.5.2 support is a MUST.

I must be missing something here. We're not talking about an end-user product, we're talking about a developer tool. What's wrong with requiring a Python download for someone who at this point wants to upgrade vim from the system default?

The default Python for Mandrake 8.1 (not the most current version), for example, is Python 2.1.1. I don't think Python 1.5.2 is the default Python for anything other than Red Hat at the moment, and even if I'm wrong about that now, it certainly will be true by the time any new version of vim becomes an installed default.

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