Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

2007-03-14 Thread Murray Cumming
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:52 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: If a program works correctly with Python 2.4, is there actually a danger of it not working correctly with 2.5? That sounds broken. Python 2.4 and 2.5 install in parallel so already-built applications will not be broken. But if you choose

Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

2007-03-14 Thread Murray Cumming
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 14:23 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: [snip] You should always test with your minimum requirements. [snip] It's not that simple. Some (fairly minor) changes are needed to make things build with Python 2.5. We already know that they build with Python 2.4. They need to build with

Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

2007-03-14 Thread Fernando Herrera
On 3/14/07, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:52 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: If a program works correctly with Python 2.4, is there actually a danger of it not working correctly with 2.5? That sounds broken. Python 2.4 and 2.5 install in parallel so

Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

2007-03-14 Thread Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
On Qua, 2007-03-14 at 13:18 +0200, Fernando Herrera wrote: On 3/14/07, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:52 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: If a program works correctly with Python 2.4, is there actually a danger of it not working correctly with 2.5? That

Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

2007-03-14 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:48 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:52 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: I worry that this move would result in programmers using 2.5-only features. Our intrepid testers wouldn't notice, because they're building from jhbuild. But we'd create an

Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

2007-03-14 Thread Shaun McCance
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:50 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 14:23 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: [snip] You should always test with your minimum requirements. [snip] It's not that simple. Some (fairly minor) changes are needed to make things build with Python 2.5. We