Re: xreadlines/python2 (?) required for gen-make.py

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:22:14PM -0800, Daniel Rall wrote:
> mark benedetto king <bking@inquira.com> writes:
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:36:02AM -0800, Daniel Rall wrote:
> > > cmpilato@collab.net writes:
> > > > Daniel Rall <dlr@finemaltcoding.com> writes:
> > > > > gen-make.py runs just fine with python2:
> > > > >
> > > > > dlr@despot:trunk$ python2 ./gen-make.py build.conf
> > > > >
> > > > > python2 ships with xreadlines. Is python2 now required to run
> > > > > gen-make.py, or just xreadlines?

The xreadlines can easily be tossed. That returns gen-make to only
requiring Python 1.5.2.

> > > > Python 2 is indeed required for Subversion developers and testers.

Nope. Only for running the test suite. We never said more than 1.5 was
needed for gen-make and a couple other bits.

(for swig, it is possible to use Python 1.5 + distutils, last I tried it)

>...
> Yes, it definitely wouldn't work in all configurations. I'm hoping
> someone will come up with a better solution. This isn't a blocking
> problem for me, but was worth bringing up.

Quite valid. Fixing now...

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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