Why does Subversion 1.6.x require such a recent Python?

I'm trying to get Subversion 1.6.x into RPMforge, and I've got to say,
the requirement for such a recent Python is fairly burdensome. From some
testing, it's apparently only needed for the compilation, not for the
actual operation of Subversion.

I understand how that can happen: whoever wrote those bits has an
up-to-date development environment. But it would be helpful if we could
scale back that requirement a bit: it only occurred with 1.6.0, and
wasn't there for 1.5.6. Ws that really necessary, in revision *35307*
<http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn?view=revision&revision=35307>? Can it
be gracefully scaled back to only require 2.3.4, which will ease RHEL 4
compilation considerably?

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Received on 2009-05-19 13:39:44 CEST