Re: [fix ancient snake-2 syntax] ./build/getversion.py

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Peter Samuelson <peter_at_p12n.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Peter Samuelson <peter_at_p12n.org> wrote:
>> > Further checking: the new exception syntax is new to Python 2.6.
>> > Given that this script is only used in dev builds (not from
>> > tarballs), someone remind me: what's our Py version requirement for
>> > dev builds?  It is not specified in INSTALL.
>
> [Mark Phippard]
>> In our 1.6 release we bumped it up to 2.4.  I believe it was 2.2
>> before that.
>
> Eh ... that's the case for release builds, documented in INSTALL.
> I thought we had a tighter Python requirement for dev builds, though.

I think we've been operating under a 2.4 assumption for dev builds,
but other bits have slowly crept in. I would not be opposed to
bumping the dev requirement to 2.6, as most distros seem to be running
at least that these days.

-Hyrum

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