Re: Libcloud and Python 2.5 [post here if you use Libcloud with Python 2.5]

[Tomaz Muraus <to...@apache.org>]

I'm digging this thread up because I just saw this tweet[1] with some real
data[2].

These statistics are for all the packages and only for a four day period so
it's hard to infer anything conclusive, but it does seem that removing
Python 2.5 starting with the 1.0.0 release is more than reasonable.

[1]: https://twitter.com/dstufft/status/389117973233152000
[2]: https://gist.github.com/dstufft/6954117


On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@apache.org> wrote:

> Dear Libcloud users,
>
> If you are using Libcloud with Python 2.5 please let us know either by
> posting a "+1" in this thread or if you don't feel comfortable sharing this
> information with other people by sending an email to
> private@libcloud.apache.org.
>
> Supporting Python 2.5 in Libcloud means we need to have a bunch of extra
> code in core which makes maintaince, testing and everything else harder. We
> could use resources which are currently needed for keeping working Python
> 2.5 support better in other places.
>
> I need this information because I'm working on a proposal for removing
> Python 2.5 support from Libcloud. Before proceeding and sending out the
> proposal I want to collect some actual data - how many people use recent
> Libcloud versions with 2.5 and how many people would be affected.
>
> Thanks,
> Tomaz
>