Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:48 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:52 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > I worry that this move would result in programmers using
> > 2.5-only features.  Our intrepid testers wouldn't notice,
> > because they're building from jhbuild.  But we'd create
> > an effective 2.5 dependency that our distributors would
> > have to deal with.
> 
> I think they'd tell us about problems.

But for the slower distros that don't follow our
bleeding-edge release cycle, would they find them
before we've made our stable releases?

(And if there is any distro that wants to package
Gnome 2.20 with Python 2.4, it's probably going
to be one of the slow-moving ones.)

--
Shaun