Re: Minimum Python for swig-py bindings

On 10/10/07, Eric Gillespie <epg@google.com> wrote:
> glasser@tigris.org writes:
>
> > Author: glasser
> > Date: Mon Oct 8 14:24:21 2007
> > New Revision: 27029
> >
> > Log:
> > For SWIG-Python tests, use unique names for temp repositories, so that
> > multiple executions of the test suite don't stomp on each other (or on
> > future executions: client.py doesn't really clean up after itself).
> >
> > (tempfile.mkdtemp would be better than tempfile.mktemp, but
> > subversion/bindings/swig/INSTALL claims we need to support way back to
> > Python 2.0.)
>
> mkstemp is new in 2.3, which is over four years old. How many
> people are upgrading to svn 1.5 while keeping a four-year-old
> Python? Not that many. If we could at least move up to 2.2,
> then we could use new-style classes for classes like
> svn.delta.Editor and svn.ra.Callbacks .
>
> I see dlr talking in another thread about bumping the
> requirements for the Java binding.
>
> I see no reason for the Python binding to be stuck in 2000.

Indeed, I just wanted to make the tests pass now without invoking a
mailing list thread first. This sounds reasonable to me.

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser_at_davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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