Supporting older Python versions in py2exe?

[Peter Hansen]

Gerhard Häring wrote:
> 
> Thomas Heller wrote:
> > I'm currently working on a major new release of py2exe, but I would
> > like to drop support for older Python versions, at least 1.5.2.
> >
> > Myself I'm only using Python 2.2 with it's new killer features;-)
> 
> Me too :-)
> 
> > So, can support be dropped for 1.5.2?
> 
> Yes, and for 2.0.x probably as well. I haven't heard of any Windows
> users using 2.0.x for a long time. I. e. 2.0.x binaries for the
> database modules I build binaries for haven't been requested, yet.
> 2.1.x binares were.

You don't know people who work in industry, I would assume from this 
comment.  We're not, I think, at all unusual and we're still using
Python 2.0.1 for the majority of our stuff, although we are in the
process of migrating to 2.2.2.  This will probably take some months
to do, as we use Python so extensively.  One cannot just stop 
using the one version overnight and have everything working on the
new version the next day.  Among other issues, changes to wxPython
have affected us, and we need more experimentation and testing
with new versions of a number of extension modules to be sure
of their stability with the new version.

On the other hand, I would have no problem at all with Thomas 
removing support for 1.5.2 (obviously), or even 2.0, as we certainly
don't expect new support for an old version.  Thomas, I would say
focus your efforts on improvements with the latest stable version
(and, perhaps, with 2.2 for quite some time, if the PBF succeeds
in making it "the" version for industry) and let others deal with
maintaining older versions, or backporting the improvements, if
they feel it's worth the effort.  You do (more than) enough already.
:-)

-Peter