[LLVMdev] Python version requirement for LLVM

[Eli Bendersky]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 5:52 PM, 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.
>

Given the amount of complexity required to build LLVM & Clang (having the
right compiler & libstdc++ installed), compared to the 3 minutes it
typically takes to install any Python version on any Linux box, these
limitations always strike me as silly. But I gave up on this fight some
time ago.

Eli



>
> 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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