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

[Eli Bendersky]

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Own Ssh <ownsshaim at aol.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Installing Python is trivial on any Linux box. Can you describe why this is
a specific problem for you w.r.t. LLVM?

Eli




>  Regards.
>
>  Own Ssh
> ownsshaim at aol.com
>
>
>  -----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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