[LLVMdev] [RFC] Requiring python 2.6

[Rafael Avila de Espindola]

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> On Dec 12, 2014, at 21:04, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So far two bots have complained about 2.7 (but have 2.6):
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>> http://bb.pgr.jp/builders/clang-i686-cygwin-RA-centos6/builds/12836/steps/configure/logs/stdio
>> http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/llvm-s390x-linux1/builds/12002/steps/configure/logs/stdio
>> 
>> Should we just upgrade those bots or reduce the requirement to 2.6?
> 
> 2.6 + py3k is a generally good combination for typical code and is easy to maintain. It is not possible to be both 2.5 and py3k compatible without huge hurdles.
> 

Well, I am no Python expert either. I went with 2.7 because it was suggested and 4 years old software sounded old  enough.

If there are no objections I will downgrade the requirement back to 2.6 on Sunday (when I will be back at my computer).

> -- Sean Silva
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>> On 12 December 2014 at 06:41, Dan Liew <dan at su-root.co.uk> wrote:
>> > +1
>> >
>> > My view on this is that lit is a testing tool. If someone is competent
>> > enough to build LLVM and run the tests then they're probably competent
>> > enough to build a newer version of Python if for some reason they
>> > can't obtain pre-built version.
>> >
>> > I use lit outside of LLVM for several projects but I always use Python
>> >>= 2.7 so it's not a problem for me.
>> >
>> > I'd also be in favour of bumping the required version higher and require 2.7
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