[Re-sending with a new subject to draw attention to the 1.9 question.]
Daniel Shahaf wrote on Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:31:31 +0000:
> Stefan Hett wrote on Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 16:59:08 +0200:
> > Please note that while testing I also found 1.7/1.8 not working with
> > Python 3.4.3 as well. Error (in both cases):
> > File "gen-make.py", line 271
> > except getopt.GetoptError, e:
> > ^
> > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >
>
> The 'except' comma syntax is supported by Python through 2.7 (inclusive)
> and the 'except' 'as' syntax is supported by Python 2.6 and newer.
> Currently, trunk advertises support for Python 2.5 and newer (so, in
> particular, so do the older branches).
>
> So, I think we should:
>
> - For 1.7/1.8, if we expect people will try to build them with py3,
> we can apply the patch. (The patch is correct; we must remain
> compatible with py2.5 on those branches; and we can't easily be
> compatible with py3 at the same time.)
>
> - For trunk, I think we should convert to the 'except' 'as' syntax and
> drop py2.5 support. (Actually, we could drop py2.6 support as well,
> as py2.6 has been EOL for nearly two years now.)
>
> - For 1.9, it's a little late to make any changes, but I would consider
> dropping py2.5 support (and converting to the 'except' 'as' syntax),
> since for 1.9 py3 support is more important than py2.5 support.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Daniel
>
> --
>
> References:
>
> [py2.5 'except' syntax] https://docs.python.org/2.5/ref/try.html
> [py2.6 'except' syntax] https://docs.python.org/2.6/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-try-statement
> [py2.6 EOL] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
>
> > So I guess it might be worthwhile adding some check there too?
> >
> > [[[
> > Detect Python >= 3.0 and error out in gen-make.py (rather than
> > producing some cryptic error/callstack).
> >
> > * gen-make.py
> > (): Add python version check >= 3.0 and error out.
> > ]]]
Received on 2015-07-22 13:48:45 CEST