Python min version bumped from 2.4+ to 2.5+

[Martin Wilke]

In fact if  use use_python=yes default is 27 we cant set python24 for removal yet because we have fix first all zope stuff. Am back to the game after
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On Aug 30, 2011, at 21:56, Greg Larkin <glarkin at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

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> On 8/30/11 9:38 AM, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
>> Greg Larkin wrote on 30.08.2011 17:05:
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>>> Hi Martin,
>>> 
>>> I have a question about a commit you made in February 2011:
>>> http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=201102250750.p1P7ofDg016541@repoman.freebsd.org&files=yes
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Part of the commit changed:
>>> 
>>> USE_PYTHON=    2.4+
>>> 
>>> to
>>> 
>>> USE_PYTHON=    2.5+
>>> 
>>> Was there a specific reason for doing so?  I am running various
>>> tinderbox builds to check on port usage of the USE_PYTHON variable, and
>>> I noticed that devel/py-setuptools no longer builds if Python 2.4 is
>>> selected.
>>> 
>>> I'd like to restore that capability, but before I send a PR, I wanted to
>>> check with you first.
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> Greg
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>> 
>> I'm sorry for sail in, but i think that the reason is that python24 is
>> reached it's EOL long time ago. Actually the only supported python
>> releases atm according to python.org are - 2.7.2 and 3.2.1, and
>> developers highly encourages the users to move to this versions.
>> 
>> 2.5 and 2.6 are in security-fix-only mode, there will be no ANY releases
>> for this branches after October 2011 and October 2013 respectively,
>> while 2.4 does not get security-fixes even.
>> 
>> There is also this answer from Martin in this pr:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/155526:
>> 
>> python24 goes to the end of month, this port is on the todo for removal
>> 
> 
> Hi Ruslan,
> 
> Ok, thank you for the explanation.  Shall I mark python24 for removal
> from the tree or file a PR for python@ to do it?
> 
> FYI, I have been running tinderbox builds with PYTHON_VERSION and
> PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION set to python2.4, python2.5, etc. to find out if
> ports with USE_PYTHON=yes need to be constrained a bit more.
> 
> I figured that python2.4 was supported since it was still in the tree
> and wasn't marked for removal yet, but I admin that I didn't check
> python.org for confirmation.
> 
> Regards,
> Greg
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