[Buildbot-devel] Python-2.4 support

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <maruel at chromium.org> wrote:
>> Don't understand your point, if you accept to use a old release like
>> Hardy, you don't expect to use the last version of tools like
>> Buildbot. Old release = old tools too. Most of the time, customers use
>> old distrib for a "political" reason and don't accept to update
>> anything. I'm wrong?
>
> I think you are right. :)

It's pretty easy to install a new version of Buildbot manually, even
without root access.  Harder to do so for a new version of Python.  So
there are organizational / political reasons for not running the
latest and greatest Python.

Pragmatically, it's the world our software is deployed in, so we need
to respect it where doing so doesn't significantly burden Buildbot.

Dustin