From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:58:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Third try at documenting command integration requirements.
Message-ID: <7vobiijxol.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121127175618.GA11845@thyrsus.com>

"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:

> I agree that 2.4 is still quite OK.  I'm a little concerned that dropping that
> far back might store up some transition problems for the day we decide to
> make the jump to Python 3.
>
> On the other hand, I think gating features on RHEL5 might be
> excessively cautious.  According to [1], RHEL will red-zone within 30
> days if it hasn't done so already ([1] says "Q4").  And RHEL6 (with
> Python 2.6) has been shipping for two years.

I won't worry about Python 3 yet; in what timeframe did Python's
i18n/unicode support become usable?  In 2.4, or 2.6?