[Python-Dev] 2.4a2, and @decorators (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 02🔞57 CEST 2004

[Raymond Hettinger]

Too bad about 6.0. I had thought the plan was to support both 6.0 and 7.1. I'm not sure what we gained by dropping 6.0 right at the end :-(

There's no plan to support MSVC 6.0. Martin routinely checks things in that break it, and that's fine. The only reason it has worked until recently is that people sometimes volunteer to patch up the 6.0 part of the tree. I gave some days to that at the start, because I didn't have a machine at the time that could run 7.1. Now I do, so I pay a lot less attention to 6.0 (and Win98SE) now.

IOW, 6.0 never had, and still doesn't have, a champion (== someone willing to keep it working) for 2.4.

I would have volunteered, but your report of a stack overflow in test_pyclbr scared me away .

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