[Buildbot-devel] Python-2.4 support

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Mon Nov 28 11:03:12 UTC 2011


On 11/27/11 11:56, P. Christeas wrote:
> On Sunday 27 November 2011, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>> Twisted's 11.1 release is the last with support for Python-2.4.
> 
> Well, personally I would vote for >= 2.6 as a minimal requirement. All 
> reasonable distros have it..

> .. except for CentOS 5 (and RHEL, obviously? ), which still use python 2.4 . 
> Just keep that in mind.

EPEL has python 2.6 packages for RHEL-5 (+centos) which are
parallel-installable.  So it isn't that much fuss to get more recent
python installed on RHEL-5.

cheers,
  Gerd




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