[Buildbot-devel] remove new Python 2.5 dependency?

[Gary Poster]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 12:14 -0500, Gary Poster wrote:
> Hi all.  There's a (very) unnecessary dependency on Python 2.5 on master right now:
> 
> Compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/buildbot/test/test_vc.py ...
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/buildbot/test/test_vc.py", line 2611
>     w = self.dovc(workdir, ['update', '--clean', '--rev', branch if branch else 'default'])
> 
> While I'm actually not a hard-head about keeping 2.4 support around, it is convenient to have, and this test is a silly reason to start removing support for 2.4 and (AIUI) 2.5.

Urg, should have proof-read.  I mean "(AIUI) 2.3".  As I understand it,
buildbot 0.7.9 supports Python 2.3 or higher (that's what the deb
claims).

>   Can we convert the ternary to "branch or 'default'" and move on, perhaps until there's a more compelling reason to depend on 2.5 or 2.6?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
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