[Buildbot-devel] Python-2.5 compatibility with 0.9.0?

[Dan Kegel]

Death to Python 2.5.  (From an Ubuntu 10.04, Centos 6, Mac 10.7, and
Cygwin user.
My shop doesn't support older OS's.)
The only pain point would be Centos 5 / RHEL 5, I bet.
https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata/ shows RHEL 5
is out of Production 1, and will fall out of Production 2 in three months,
so you'd be somewhat justified in dropping it now.

(Incidentally, today I brought up a buildbot slave on Mac OSX 10.9
for the first time (had been on 10.7).  I'm now using system python
instead of python from macports or homebrew
(since otherwise I can't build boost-python properly inside the buildbot),
and that forces me to install Twisted from source inside my virtualenv.
So I'd happily move to a newer Twisted, too.)
- Dan



On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us> wrote:
> We ran into some minor compatibility problems with Python-2.5 today,
> in the nine branch.  They're not hard to fix -- just some 2.6-only
> syntax -- but I ran into a lot of trouble trying to dust off my old
> Python-2.5 virtualenv to test them.  Coincidentally, Travis-CI
> recently dropped its Python-2.5 support, so Buidbot pull requests are
> no longer automatically tested against that version.  The metabuildbot
> still runs some slaves with Python-2.5, though.
>
> My thinking is, we should continue to support 2.5 as best we can in
> Buildbot-0.8.x, but not support it in nine.
> https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/pull/982 would do just that.
>
> Reactions?
> Dustin
>
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