On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues 
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 10:25 -0700, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> > I'm wondering if we can move the minimum required version up to 2.6 or
> > at least 2.5?
> >
> > Is anyone still using it against an old enough distro that 2.4 is the
> > lowest common denominator available?
>
> After asking around folks here, it seems like RHEL 5.X is going to be
> around for a while, so I was thinking that if we should ever move
> versions, let's do it altogether to 3.X, if we have measurable benefits
> on doing so.
>
> Do you think it'd be significantly easier to develop if we move to 2.6?
> I know there are some things that are indeed better in 2.5+,
> try/except/finally blocks come to my mind. But maybe it's better to
> sacrifice some commodity over broader compatibility with stuff that's
> still fairly current?
>

try/except/finally and with statements are the major niceties.

Anyways we've got no real issues with sticking with 2.4 here I just figured
I'd ask.

A move to 3.x will be a big change without much benefit to autotest at the
moment.

-gps
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