[LLVMdev] Minimum Python Version

Duncan Sands baldrick at free.fr
Wed Dec 5 09:34:09 PST 2012


Hi Sean,

On 04/12/12 18:36, Sean Silva wrote:
>> If there was a concrete need to move to a newer Python version in order to
>> make lit Python 3 compatible, I would view that as a good reason to move
>> forward.
>
> The concrete need is that users on platforms which ship with Python 3
> by default have to put in a workaround (install python2 and patch
> their $PATH) just to run the test suite. Off the top of my head I know
> this includes Ubuntu 12.10 and Arch Linux.

I'm running ubuntu 12.10 and the system python is 2.7.3.

Ciao, Duncan.



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