On Sunday 18 September 2005 19:51, Bo Peng wrote: > > World is a small place, really. I have seen your contributions around > > several places lately (R, rpy, ...) :-) > > Well, I make a living on python, r, rpy and lyx. I make contributions > only to make my own life easier. :-)
I have packaged rpy to Fedora Extras, and I would like to thank you for your work there. It helped the packaging a lot. :-) > > What is the minimum required python version for your script? > > As Angus said we are still aiming to python 1.5.2 compatibility, not > > something that I like but something necessary to deal with older systems. > > mkstemp is used for the cygwin path detection, which is new to python > 2.3. popen is used but "it is not stable under windows prior to python > 2.0". mkstemp can be easily replaced by using explicit temp file name > but someone has to run the script with python 1.5.2 to tell the > compatibility of other parts. I know, we have decided to proceed since this code is supposed to be only run in windows and there the above argument does not apply. I would guess that every new install will have at least python 2.3 installed. :-) > Cheers, > Bo -- José Abílio
