[LLVMdev] [RFC] Requiring python 2.6

[İsmail Dönmez]

Hi,

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 4:24 AM, Rafael Avila de Espindola
<rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Sent from my iPhone
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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:
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>> 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
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>> http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/llvm-s390x-linux1/builds/12002/steps/configure/logs/stdio
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>> Should we just upgrade those bots or reduce the requirement to 2.6?
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> 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.
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> Well, I am no Python expert either. I went with 2.7 because it was suggested
> and 4 years old software sounded old  enough.

python 2.7 will be maintaned until 2020
(https://hg.python.org/peps/rev/76d43e52d978) so please leave it
as-is. People should be updating.