Re: [RFC] Make Python 2.5 minimum version for dev tools (including test suite)

Hyrum K Wright wrote on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 16:04:06 -0600:
> I find myself wanting to use the 'with' statement in the test suite,
> which was introduced in Python 2.5 Python 2.5 was released 5.5 years
> ago, and while I'm sure somebody on some archaic platform somewhere
> doesn't have it installed, I think we can reasonably assume that
> Python 2.5 is generally available. For reference, we currently
> require and SQLite that is only 2.5-years-old.
>

We require SQLite 3.6.18 because it contains a bug fix we need, not
because we think it's "old enough".

http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_6_18.html

> (And for the historically minded among us, let's please don't repeat
> the same bikeshed we had when we bumped to Python 2.4 3 years ago:
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-01/0266.shtml)
>
> I would like to recommend we bump our minimum required version for the
> test suite and development tools to Python 2.5.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Hyrum
>
>
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Received on 2012-02-09 23:12:33 CET