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

[Marc-Antoine Ruel]

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M-A


2013/11/25 Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>

> 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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