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

[Jared Grubb]

I definitely would +1 this.

If 2.5 is on the table, what are the ramifications of dropping 2.6 for nine as well? There's an appeal of getting closer to supporting Py3k, which apparently is much easier if you have a codebase on 2.7 minimum. Py3k support might end up being more appealing to our users/devs than supporting the sliver of people who could do 2.6 but not 2.7.

(But, I personally havent even cracked open a Py3k interpreter, so I'm speaking only what I've heard at Pycon and GSoC Mentor Summit .. take my question with that grain of salt!)

Jared

On Nov 25, 2013, at 16:33, 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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