On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 23:27 -0800, tom fogal wrote: > Jose Fonseca <jfons...@vmware.com> writes: > > I can remove python2.6 dependency as you suggest, but although this > > new string formatting method is seldom used it actually makes the > > code much more readable and I was hoping to spread its use, so I'd > > like you to try one thing first before giving it up: > > I agree that it's a *lot* prettier than the old-style % (a) formatters! > > > I don't know which Debian release you have, but Debian has been > > shipping a python2.6 for a long time. > > Only in unstable && testing. Stable is still running 2.5: > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/python/python
Ah. I Debian a lot, but I always use unstable (which has 2.6 for a long time) and somehow thought there was a stable release more recently. Apparently not. > > If you install it and pull the latest apitrace code from git [. . > > .] then it should pickup the /usr/bin/python2.6 interpreter binary > > instead of the /usr/bin/python, therefore not failing. > > I don't have a /usr/bin/python2.6, as you might guess from the above. > > > Does this work for you? You may need to remove the CMakeCache.txt > > file first. > > Nah, no 2.6 so of course it can't find it. I was surprised that the > aforementioned CMake macro didn't cause an error to pop up though; I > would've expected configuration to fail because my python isn't up to > snuff, but it doesn't appear to notice. > > This was really a question of "is it worth it to support 2.5?" I can > say that it looks like it will be a moot issue for Debian "soon": > > http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20101116b > > I don't know about other distros... but I do know that Debian's been > far too long without a stable =(. So maybe the solution here is just, > "use a system with a python from the last couple years". If you're comfortable upgrading your development machine to squeeze then that would be super. I suppose there are many other reasons to upgrade beyond python. There are less disruptive alternatives to upgrade like chroots. Apparently it is really straightforward to get a squeeze chroot [1] Jose [1] http://www.codelain.com/forum/index.php?topic=11548.0 _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev