Re: Bumping Python requirement to (at least) 2.2

David Glasser wrote:
> We currently require Python only for the build-from-checkout and test
> system, not for building from tarballs. We require 2.2 for Windows
> and 2.0 for Unix.
>
> Here is a timeline:
> 21-Dec-2001: Python 2.2 released.
> 23-Feb-2004: Subversion 1.0.0 released.
> 30-Nov-2004: Python 2.4 released.
> 17-Oct-2007: I am writing these words.
>
> I think we should bump the Python requirement to at least 2.2, if not
> 2.4. This will let us use modern features like subprocess (which
> comes with 2.4 and works with 2.2) in the test suite. There's a nice
> table in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0291/ which shows what
> language features we would be able to use.

+1 (but doesn't count because I'm not a full committer)

FWIW, cvs2svn has required Python 2.2 since August 2006, and nobody ever
complained. And generator functions are really fun :-)

I don't think the time is ripe to require Python 2.4 yet, though.

For cvs2svn, we have a couple of modules to add 2.4-like features to
Python 2.2; see

http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/svn/cvs2svn/trunk/cvs2svn_lib/...
    boolean.py
    process.py
    set_support.py

though from recent discussions it sounds like we could include Python's
process module instead of using our module.

Michael

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Received on Thu Oct 18 10:56:58 2007