[LLVMdev] Minimum Python Version

Eli Bendersky eliben at google.com
Mon Dec 3 10:04:06 PST 2012


On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> 03.12.2012, 11:44, "Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mjd at reanimality.com>:
>> One of the most conservative distributions is Debian.
>
> RHEL/CentOS is more conservative. RHEL 6 ships Python 2.6.6, RHEL 5 (which is still widely used) ships 2.4.3
>

This is a good point to consider. If RHEL 5 ships 2.4.3 and is
officially E-EOL in 2020, and we want to stick to "system Python"
everywhere, this means we plan to have our Python code running on
Python 2.4.3 until 2020? I doubt that anyone considers this seriously.

Eli



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