On Ter, 2007-03-13 at 16:57 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007, Elijah Newren wrote: > > Unlike GNOME and Linux, Python does not use odd version numbers for > > development versions. Thus 2.5 is the latest production version of > > Python, rather than the latest development version. > > I know 2.5 is a stable release; my point is that this needlessly raises > the bar to build GNOME: anyone is free to build GNOME with whatever > version of libc6, gcc, or python that one wants to catch some bugs (in > GNOME or in these projects), but imposing the python version to be so > high by default seems a gratuitous change. 3 out of 5 Ubuntu releases > do not have Python 2.5 by default, no Debian release has it and the > next one wont have it.
I am not proposing that GNOME modules using Python should require a minimum Python version of 2.5. I am only proposing that "jhbuild bootstrap" install the python 2.5 tarball instead of python 2.4. The effect of this change is: 1. We start putting more emphasis on testing GNOME-over-python2.5 rather than GNOME-over-python2.4 (the latter has already been extensively tested over the years, while the former hasn't); 2. We require that GNOME modules using Python make an effort to work on Python 2.5, in addition to Python 2.4. I think primarily it's a matter of which version of python we prefer to test. I say we test GNOME with python 2.5 because it's the new stable version of python and python 2.4 is not maintained any more. -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The universe is always one step beyond logic _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list