Subject: TUI on unix: Python 2.5 is required

From: Russell Owen

Submitted: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:33:46 -0700

Message number: 1193 (previous: 1192, next: 1194 up: Index)

TUI 1.7.3 and later requires Python 2.5. This was an accidental change  
in dependencies for which I apologize. I can restore Python 2.4  
compatibility if necessary, but it will be a day's work or so. So: how  
badly is this affecting people? So far I know of one user who was  
bitten by it (that's how I found out about it); fortunately he was  
able to upgrade his Python and all is now well.

For those considering an upgrade: I recommend Python 2.6.x. Python  
2.7.0 was just released a few weeks ago, but I have not tested TUI  
with ot (though I fully expect it to work).

Regards,

-- Russell

P.S. Python 2.5 was released in summer of 2006, so 2.4 is very old.  
2.6 is the recommended version and 2.7 has just come out.

P.P.S. Python 2.7.x is the end of the road for Python 2, though it  
will be maintained for some time to come. Python 3 is where the active  
development work is going on, but it's a fairly big change and I have  
no plans to make such a move for now, and when it happens it will be  
fully intentional.


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