[TIP] unittest2 supported versions

Kushal Das kushaldas at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 23:26:05 PDT 2014


On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Robert Collins
<robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> unittest2 serves as a backport of unittest features to older python.
>
> What versions does it need to support?
>
> It currently supports 2.4+, but even 2.6 is now fully dead.
>
> So I'd like to suggest that the versions which Python itself is doing
> security fixes on be the only versions that we test against - I don't
> want to have to run non-security-supported releases of Python in order
> to test that new releases of unittest2 work.
>
2.6 is very much alive due to RHEL/CentOS6.x releases. Most of the
infrastructures
are running those.

Kushal
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