On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:11:52 +0200 "Amaury Forgeot d'Arc" <amaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/4/4 Eugene Toder <elto...@gmail.com>: > > Hello, > > > > CPython source code currently contains a number of python scripts (e.g > > Python/makeopcodetargets.py, Objects/typeslots.py, Parser/asdl_c.py) > > that are used during the build of the python interpreter itself. For > > this reason they are run with system installed python. What is the > > policy regarding > > the range of python versions that they should support? > > > > I looked at some of the scripts and they seem to support both 2 and 3, > > starting from at most 2.4. Python/makeopcodetargets.py says at the > > top: > > # This code should stay compatible with Python 2.3, at least while > > # some of the buildbots have Python 2.3 as their system Python. > > Is this the official minimal version or do we have this spelled out > > more explicitly somewhere? > > Normally PEP291 lists the packages which should remain compatible > with previous versions of Python: > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0291/
That's quite orthogonal. PEP 291 is about public stdlib modules, not build scripts. Furthermore, “this PEP has no bearing on the Python 3 standard library”. To answer Eugene's question, there's no official policy but the comment at the top of Python/makeopcodetargets.py can indeed serve as an useful guideline. I wonder if we still have buildbots with 2.3 as the system Python, by the way. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
