[LLVMdev] [RFC] Requiring python 2.6

[David Majnemer]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> RHEL 6 and variants (CentOS) ship with Python 2.4. RHEL 6 is in extended
> support for a few more years.
>

Right, but we don't support 2.4 today, we use features only available in
2.5+.


>
> I believe I've previously proposed a 2.7 migration on this list. A lot of
> people came out of the woodwork to object.
>

AFAICT, RHEL 7 includes python 2.7.5


>
> Good luck moving forward. The world is better if Python <2.7 can be
> dropped.
>
> On Dec 11, 2014, at 18:28, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> I guess the only question is "who is using < 2.6 ?"
>
> -- Sean Silva
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Rafael Espíndola <
> rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Currently lit on windows will not work with python 3 because the
>> internal shell has code like
>>
>>  except OSError, e:
>>
>> and in python 3 one has to use
>>
>>  except OSError as e:
>>
>> But that only works on python 2.6 and newer.
>>
>> So the question is: any objections to dropping support for python 2.5?
>> Python 2.6 was released 01-Oct-2008, so it should be available
>> everywhere.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rafael
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