[reportlab-users] Plans to deprecate Python 2.3, 2.4

[Roberto Alsina]

On Wednesday 16 December 2009 08:34:12 Andy Robinson wrote:

> Hi all,

> 

> We feel that the forthcoming 2.4 release should probably be the last

> one which works with Pythons 2.3 and 2.4.    We'd like to move the

> baseline up AFTER the release so that Python 2.5 is required, and we

> can safely write code with little '@' signs.

> 

> Does this cause problems for any substantial groups of people out

> there?  Are there still millions of Zope users stuck on Python 2.3,

> for example?


AFAIK the only remaining large 2.4 userbase is CentOS/RHEL 5 users. Those are 
quite a few, though. When I accidentally made rst2pdf require 2.5 I got 6 
emails in a week, and my userbase is maybe 1/10000 of yours. 

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