On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Jussi Pakkanen <jpakk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Since you're talking about a bootstrap requirement here, the obvious >> question is: What version of Python 3 does it require? Will it be a >> lot of hassle to get hold of (say) Python 3.2, only to uninstall it >> when you have your 3.4 built? > > > The implementation does not use deep Python magic such as C extensions or > the like so it should work with future releases of Python. The current > version requires 3.3 or newer but only because it uses a couple of pythonlib > functions that were added at 3.3. Changing it to work with 3.2 or earlier > should not be a big task.
Newer versions shouldn't be a problem, older ones will. I'm mainly thinking about systems that can't just casually apt-get a Python 3.3. With Ubuntu, most people probably don't even need to worry about building from source, as there'll be a decently-recent Python in the repo; but what happens when you're on Debian Squeeze and the only Python 3 you can get is 3.1.3? Even Wheezy (the current stable Debian) comes with only 3.2. I do like the symmetry of using Python to build Python. But I also like using Python 3.3+ for everything, and not having to support the older Pythons. Unfortunately those two capacities clash, my lords, they clash! ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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
