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[python-committers] Cutting Python 2.6

Anthony Baxter anthonybaxter at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 08:28:06 CEST 2008 
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:08 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> You're absolutely right and that sounds good.  I will update the PEP
>> accordingly.  Martin, Ronald, Sean, what timezones are you in?  I am
>> US/Eastern.
>
> I'm in CET (Central European), that GMT+2 in DST, and GMT+1 otherwise.
>
> As for Sean: Sean and me had agreed that we won't do RPMs anymore for
> 2.5.x. Maybe we need to reconsider now, but my view is that binary RPMs
> typically fit a very specific OS release only (e.g. some version of
> Redhat); all the other RPM-using distributions (SuSE etc) couldn't use
> it. So compared to the value, the effort is too big.

+1. Last time I looked (a fair while ago now) the number of downloads
of the RPM packages wasn't that large.
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