[Biopython] Phasing out support for Python 2.4?

[Leighton Pritchard]

Hi,

Our sysadmins prefer to install (i.e. that's what we get...) CentOS on our
servers.  The most recent version is CentOS 5.4 (October 2009), and I've
just noticed that this comes with Python 2.4.3 as its system Python.

L.


On 14/01/2010 14:46, "Peter" <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Biopython currently supports Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6
> (and seems to work on the current Python 2.7 alpha),
> but it is probably time to start phasing out support for
> Python 2.4.
> 
> Reasons for encouraging Python 2.5+ include the
> built in support for sqlite3 (which we can use in the
> BioSQL wrapper) and ElementTree (which we use
> for the new phyloXML parser), both of which must
> currently be manually installed for Python 2.4.
> 
> There are other technical advantages, see this
> thread on our development mailing list:
> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2010-January/007236.html
> 
> We'd aim to follow our usual deprecation procedure,
> so at least two releases and one year before actually
> dropping support for Python 2.4. At that point older
> Linux distributions which ship with Python 2.4
> probably won't be supported anyway.
> 
> Is dropping support for Python 2.4 going to cause
> anyone a problem?
> 
> Please send any replies just to the main mailing list
> (not the announcement list).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Peter
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