[LLVMdev] About python requirement, can down to 2.6 for rhel 6?

[Own Ssh]

As I known SUSE 11 still use python 2.6 and will support until 2020 (same to python 2),
 Python 2.6 still have wide usage for enterprise.
The previous discussion said rhel / centos 6 use python 2.4 but that's not true, they use 2.6.5 when 6.0 come out.

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: ownsshaim <ownsshaim at aol.com>
To: llvmdev <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Fri, Feb 6, 2015 4:15 am
Subject: About python requirement, can down to 2.6 for rhel 6?


 Hello, I notice llvm begin require python atleast 2.7,
 Then I saw the commit log
 
 >>> Require python 2.7.
 >>> 
 >>> We were already requiring 2.5, which meant that people on old linux distros
 >>> had to upgrade anyway.
 >>> 
 >>> Requiring python 2.6 will make supporting 3.X easier as we can use the 3.X
 >>> exception syntax.
 >>> 
 >>> According to the discussion on llvmdev, there is not much value is requiring
 >>> just 2.6, we may as well just require 2.7.
 
 I'm using rhel 6 so the default python version is still 2.6,
 down the requirement to 2.6 will help rhel 6 a little bit.
 
 Here is python 2.7 features
 https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/2.7.html
 Is these fetures must be use?
 
 Ofcource I can build python 2.7 myself or use rhel software collections,
 but it will make the software I built on llvm require python 2.7 too.
 
 If python 2.6 is ok I hope llvm require this version for the years until switch to python 3.
 
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