On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2016, at 5:21 PM, Fred Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't consider Python 2.6 to be "cruft". Developers need many > > versions of Python installed for testing, and that includes any > > packages that are also needed. It's annoying to have to create local > > versions of portfiles solely to add versions that are missing for no > > substantive reason. > > The substantive reason is that every additional version of CPython we > support is a maintenance burden, especially one that saw its last > feature release 6 years ago and its last bugfix release nearly 3 years > ago. Well, leaving something alone that's working just fine is hardly much of a maintenance burden. BTW, there's some erroneous information that making code compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3 requires 2.7. I have yet to encounter any issues with "polyglot" code per se on Python 2.6. Anything earlier is definitely problematic, however. Fred Wright _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
