[LLVMdev] Python version requirement for LLVM

[Alexander Kornienko]

Yeah, RHEL... Then I'm going to add a lit feature (say, python27) to guard
the test of my python script on it with REQUIRES:.


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As much as I like killing support for Python 2.6 and below, RHEL is
> usually the blocker. They still have 2.4 under support. Only the RHEL that
> was released a few weeks ago finally has 2.7.
>
> On Jun 25, 2014, at 17:11, Alexander Kornienko <alexfh at google.com> wrote:
>
> http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html currently mentions Python 2.5 as
> a minimum required version. I'd like to use argparse
> <https://docs.python.org/dev/library/argparse.html> in a script and be
> able to test this script. This requires Python 2.7. This version has been
> around since 2010, and afaiu, is available on all modern platforms. Is
> there any reason not to change minimum required version of Python to 2.7?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Alexander Kornienko
>
>
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