Luckily, I'm still on 12.04. I'll test and see if 2.4/2.5 work.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Michael Terry <[email protected] > wrote: > > it's just the sheer amount of modified code that worries me a bit. > > as i wrote in the other email > > Fair. I tried to thoroughly test, but I'm human. :) > > > 1. old backend code e.g. released by somebody privately will not work > > anymore when dropped into duplicity/backends > > This is a good point. I'm curious how many people do that; I can easily > imagine it happening. > > As for your comments, Ken: > > > So, if we wanted, we could move the modernizations over to 0.7 and > > fix 0.6.24 to work on older Pythons. > > As much as I hate giving any thoughts to py2.4/2.5, this is probably a > nice thing to do. We clearly have interested users still on RHEL5, from my > last survey on the mailing list. > > If I have time in the next week, I can do this. Else, if you tackle this, > note that you shouldn't do the testing on a recently-released distro. > Because recent versions of tox/setuptools/virtualenv all dropped support > for <2.6. Maybe try Ubuntu 12.04? I haven't tried an older distro myself > yet, but ideally you'd be able to add "py24,py25" to the tox.ini file and > just run tox to confirm that we work with older pythons. If that doesn't > work, you'd have to go to an earlier release of your distro of choice. > -- > > https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/duplicity/backend-unification/+merge/216764 > You are subscribed to branch lp:duplicity. > -- https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/duplicity/backend-unification/+merge/216764 Your team duplicity-team is requested to review the proposed merge of lp:~mterry/duplicity/backend-unification into lp:duplicity. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
