Re: [RFC] Make Python 2.5 minimum version for dev tools (including test suite)

2012-02-13 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > I find myself wanting to use the 'with' statement in the test suite, > which was introduced in Python 2.5  Python 2.5 was released 5.5 years > ago, and while I'm sure somebody on some archaic platform somewhere > doesn't have it installed, I

Re: [RFC] Make Python 2.5 minimum version for dev tools (including test suite)

2012-02-10 Thread Philip Martin
Hyrum K Wright writes: > ago, and while I'm sure somebody on some archaic platform somewhere > doesn't have it installed, I think we can reasonably assume that > Python 2.5 is generally available. I believe RHEL 5 comes with Python 2.4 only. I don't think there are official RPMs of 2.5 although

Re: [RFC] Make Python 2.5 minimum version for dev tools (including test suite)

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Greg Stein wrote on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 17:43:25 -0500: > On Feb 9, 2012 5:04 PM, "Hyrum K Wright" wrote: > > > > I find myself wanting to use the 'with' statement in the test suite, > > which was introduced in Python 2.5 Python 2.5 was released 5.5 years > > ago, and while I'm sure somebody on

Re: [RFC] Make Python 2.5 minimum version for dev tools (including test suite)

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Hyrum K Wright wrote on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 16:27:39 -0600: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Hyrum K Wright wrote on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 16:04:06 -0600: > >> I find myself wanting to use the 'with' statement in the test suite, > >> which was introduced in Python 2.5  Py

Re: [RFC] Make Python 2.5 minimum version for dev tools (including test suite)

2012-02-09 Thread Greg Stein
On Feb 9, 2012 5:04 PM, "Hyrum K Wright" wrote: > > I find myself wanting to use the 'with' statement in the test suite, > which was introduced in Python 2.5 Python 2.5 was released 5.5 years > ago, and while I'm sure somebody on some archaic platform somewhere > doesn't have it installed, I thin

Re: [RFC] Make Python 2.5 minimum version for dev tools (including test suite)

2012-02-09 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Hyrum K Wright wrote on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 16:04:06 -0600: >> I find myself wanting to use the 'with' statement in the test suite, >> which was introduced in Python 2.5  Python 2.5 was released 5.5 years >> ago, and while I'm sure somebody o

Re: [RFC] Make Python 2.5 minimum version for dev tools (including test suite)

2012-02-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Hyrum K Wright] > I think we can reasonably assume that Python 2.5 is generally > available. For reference, we currently require and SQLite that is > only 2.5-years-old. Obligatory "what about Debian users, since that platform is always so far behind": the oldest supported Debian release, lenny

Re: [RFC] Make Python 2.5 minimum version for dev tools (including test suite)

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Hyrum K Wright wrote on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 16:04:06 -0600: > I find myself wanting to use the 'with' statement in the test suite, > which was introduced in Python 2.5 Python 2.5 was released 5.5 years > ago, and while I'm sure somebody on some archaic platform somewhere > doesn't have it install

[RFC] Make Python 2.5 minimum version for dev tools (including test suite)

2012-02-09 Thread Hyrum K Wright
I find myself wanting to use the 'with' statement in the test suite, which was introduced in Python 2.5 Python 2.5 was released 5.5 years ago, and while I'm sure somebody on some archaic platform somewhere doesn't have it installed, I think we can reasonably assume that Python 2.5 is generally ava