2009-01-09 23:29:40 Paul Burba napisał(a):
> Currently INSTALL states that we require Python 2.2 or newer.
>
> While trying to track down some testing bugs on Windows I downgraded
> from Python 2.6.2 to 2.3.5 and, changing nothing else, re-ran the test
> suite. The tests would not run to completion and hung in many places.
> Then I tried to rebuild trunk (r35135) with 2.3.5 and the build
> simply fails:
>
> C:\SVN\src-trunk>gen-make.py -t vcproj --vsnet-version=2008
> --with-neon=C:\SVN\src-trunk\neon --with-httpd=C:\SVN\httpd-2.2.10
> --with-openssl=C:\SVN\openssl --with-berkeley-db=C:\S
> VN\bdb --with-apr=C:\SVN\httpd-2.2.10\srclib\apr
> --with-apr-util=C:\SVN\httpd-2.2.10\srclib\apr-util
> --with-zlib=C:\SVN\zlib --enable-bdb-in-apr-util
> --with-serf=C:\SVN\serf --with
> -swig=C:\SVN\swig --with-junit="C:\Program
> Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_07\jre\lib\ext\junit-4.4.jar"
> --with-sqlite=C:\SVN\sqlite
> Found libdb47.lib in C:\SVN\bdb
> Generating for VS.NET 2008
> Could not detect Ruby version.
> Ruby bindings will be linked with msvcrt-ruby18.lib
> Found installed perl version number.
> Perl bindings will be linked with perl510.lib
> Found installed SWIG version 1.3.36
> Using SWIG library directory C:\SVN\swig\Lib
> Found JDK version 1.6 in C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_07
> Found SQLite version 3.6.3
> Found neon version 0.28.2
> Wrote: build\win32\build_zlib.bat
> Wrote: build\win32\build_locale.bat
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\SVN\src-trunk\gen-make.py", line 288, in ?
> main(conf, gentype, skip_depends=skip, other_options=rest.list)
> File "C:\SVN\src-trunk\gen-make.py", line 40, in main
> generator = gen_module.Generator(fname, verfname, other_options)
> File "build\generator\gen_vcnet_vcproj.py", line 18, in __init__
> 'vcnet-vcproj')
> File "build\generator\gen_win.py", line 285, in __init__
> swig.Generator(self.conf, self.swig_exe).write()
> File "build\generator\swig\header_wrappers.py", line 20, in __init__
> generator.swig.Generator.__init__(self, conf, swig_path)
> File "build\generator\swig\__init__.py", line 43, in __init__
> self.swig_libdir = _exec.output([self.swig_path, "-swiglib"], strip=1)
> File "build\generator\util\executable.py", line 44, in output
> (stdin, stdout) = os.popen4(cmd)
> TypeError: popen4() argument 1 must be string, not list
>
> Now this build problem is simple to fix, but it, and the testing
> failures, make me wonder if any active developers are using "older"
> versions of Python. Perhaps it is time we bumped the minimum
> requirement?
>
> I suggest 2.4 because there are several places in the build and test
> environment where different code paths are followed for Python < 2.4
> and from my preliminary testing these code paths don't work correctly.
> So either we need to fix them or remove them.
>
> Any objections to bumping the minimum version? If not, should it be
> 2.4 or something even newer?
+1 for requiring Python >=2.4.
--
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Received on 2009-01-10 20:00:36 CET