[ITK Community] Support for different python versions

[Matt McCormick]

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> I did not find many stats about 2.5 usage. Here are two :
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> http://astrofrog.github.io/blog/2013/01/13/what-python-installations-are-scientists-using/
> http://alexgaynor.net/2014/jan/03/pypi-download-statistics/
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Great job on the stats.


> The second one is interesting as it is a dump of the PyPI download
> statics. We have 0.115% of usage for python 2.5 (don't know how exact those
> values are).
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> We can still go back to 2.5 if needed, but I think we should then have a
> running test machine for this case. I don't want to break anything.
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Agreed.

I think time is best spent getting 2.7, 2.6, 3.3, 3.2, 2.5, ... green in
that order.


> As this was merged in release, we will see when ITK 4.5.2 is released how
> many people ask to get python 2.5 back.
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Or perhaps we should have a deprecation message saying python 2.5 support
> will be gone for ITK 4.6 ?
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I think this is reasonable.

More discussion on the lists is always good.

Rock on,
Matt
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