[Buildbot-devel] Python-2.4 support

Jean-Michel Beuken jean-michel.beuken at uclouvain.be
Mon Nov 28 18:37:51 UTC 2011


On 28/11/2011 17:02, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
>
>
sorry perhaps off topic...

a solution of the type "Unified Installer" or virtualenv used by Plone
( with the installation of its own Python, ...),  is it conceivable for buildbot ?

jmb




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