[Python-Dev] Compiler for the Mac OS X version of Python 3.4 (original) (raw)

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Wed Sep 18 15:41:56 CEST 2013

On Sep 18, 2013, at 03:36 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Le Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:54:32 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> a écrit : Am 18.09.13 08:43, schrieb Gregory P. Smith:

Just drop support for 10.6 with Python 3.4. Problem solved. People on that old of a version of the OS can build their own Python 3.4 or do the right thing and upgrade or just install Linux.

This isn't Windows. Compiler tool chains are freely available for the legacy platform. We don't need to maintain such a long legacy support tail there ourselves. I don't mind such a decision in principle, but also in principle, I'd prefer if there was a pre-set policy to decide this question, documented in PEP 11. Here a piece of OSX release history:

This means that any Mac shipped pre-July 2011 has 10.6 or lower? I know Mac users are fashion victims, but 2011 doesn't sound that old to me ;-) (it's even younger than Barry!)   That's correct, and IMHO it is too early to drop support for 10.6 and doubly so when it is only done to use a newer compiler for the binary build.

Still-using-10.5-in-production-ly yours,

    Ronald

Regards

Antoine.

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