On Tue, 02 Jul 2013, Glandos wrote:
>    Hmm, I can understand why supporting python 2.5 is reasonable, but python
>    2.4 seems to be a bad choice for a new release. In my (humble) opinion, a
>    new release of fail2ban (0.9) can safely introduce a drop in supported
>    versions of python.
>    According to [1]http://www.python.org/download/releases/ the latest
>    version of python 2.4 is 4 and half years old. I know that SLES10 is still
>    using it, but I don't know where it can serve some people.
>    But, once again, I'm not the architect of this software, this is just my
>    opinion [2]:smiley:

actually it might be not a bad idea.  I only wonder what is the minimal python
version available on all still supported linux distributions, e.g. RHEL?

heh heh -- the one I have access to has it at 2.4:

```
$> lsb_release -r
Release:    5.9

$> uname -a
Linux discovery 2.6.18-348.6.1.el5 #1 SMP Fri Apr 26 09:21:26 EDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$> python -v 
...
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Oct 23 2012, 22:02:41) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-54)] on linux2

```

so it seems to be RHEL 5 but python from RHEL 4?

RHEL 4
2012-02-29 (End of Production 3 / End of Regular Life Cycle)
and only now till 2015-02-28 (End of Extended Life Cycle)

but oh well -- we do not get paid to maintain for this long ;)

So -- let's hear others

myself -- I do not mind setting 2.5 or even 2.6 as the minimal supported version.

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