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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