[Buildbot-devel] remove new Python 2.5 dependency?

[Marcus Lindblom]

Marcus Lindblom wrote:
> No problem. I'm fairly new to Python so I'm not aware of all 
> backwards-compability issues with the 2.5-style syntax.
>
> Sorry for any problems caused. :-/
>
> /Marcus
>
> Axel Hecht wrote:
>> Sounds fair to me. The 'blame' for that code is with Marcus, 
>> http://github.com/djmitche/buildbot/commit/1023a7e60f67c103dd96072852b83863936a634b. 
>>
>>
>> Axel
>>
>> 2009/1/26 Gary Poster <gary.poster at canonical.com 
>> <mailto:gary.poster-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw at public.gmane.org>>
>>
>>     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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