2009/3/8 Stephen Kennedy <[email protected]>: > 2009/3/8 Vincent Legoll <[email protected]>: >> I think meld needs python-2.4, because documentation states that >> sorted() and set() built-ins are available since this version. > > I'd prefer to rewrite the offending code - some people are stuck on old > python versions and it's not too much hassle to support 2.3
Going through the "What's new in Python 2.4" document, there is at least one other 2.4-ism that would need to be fixed: the use of the subprocess module (in the svn plugin). There's also generator expressions... I haven't found any of these yet, but some may have snuck in. Playing devil's advocate for a moment... How many users are actually stuck on 2.3? A bit of searching turned up this poll, with a useful (quite possibly incomplete) list of affected distributions. http://moinmo.in/PollAboutRequiringPython24 Even on that already short list, I don't know how many actually have a new enough pygtk for Meld. I checked CentOS 4, which was on pygtk 2.4. The official package list page for SLES9 was a 404... In addition, there has been 2.4-requiring code (from rev 995) in releases 1.2 and 1.2.1 without anyone complaining. In contrast, as soon as I (accidentally) broke our pygtk requirement by requiring 2.12, someone noticed. Having said that, I agree that it's not much effort to support python 2.3... but will anyone notice? Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
