[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot-0.7.12rc2 - tests error on python 2.3

[Marcus Lindblom]

On 2010-01-11 14:51, Bailey, Darragh wrote:
>> From the failures that I'm seeing, I think that slaves should still be fine.
>
> It might worth noting that buildbot masters require python 2.4 going forward unless you think there is a benefit of including the string.Template class in order to support python 2.3.

It's already a requirement from 0.8 due to the use of jinja2-templates 
for most of the WebStatus().

> Personnally, as long as the slaves can still work on python 2.3 it doesn't pose a problem for me.
>
> Failing test for python 2.3 are:
> [ERROR]: buildbot.test.test_config.ConfigTest.testWebPathname
> [ERROR]: buildbot.test.test_config.ConfigTest.testWebPortnum

[many of these]
>    File "/build/user/darragh/git/buildbot/buildbot/status/web/console_html.py", line 1, in ?
>      from string import Template
> exceptions.ImportError: cannot import name Template

We could also just disable the console-view on Python 2.3, to keep the 
master compatible for this release?

Cheers,
/Marcus