[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 34, Issue 55

[Tony Cappellini]

Message: 1
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:24:41 -0800
From: "Chris Hengge" <pyro9219 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tutor] OT: Python 2.5 (Was Re: Length of longest item in

>>I hope this is related enough for this thread, but I'm curious why people
>>didn't seem to unanimously jump into 2.5 upon release.

One reason- having to upgrade all the packages that you've installed is time
consuming.

Another- we have a very large tools framework where I work. Someone needs to
make sure these tools will work with any new version of Python. We use
2.3at the  moment, and there is no significant reason to upgrade to
2.4 or 2.5, to justify the time involved in testing all the tools to make
sure every line of code is executed with the new version.

As far as my home use, I'm still using 2.4, and will keep it that way until
I need to install something that requires 2.5.
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