On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 17:38 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > On Ter, 2007-03-13 at 16:57 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007, Elijah Newren wrote: > > > Unlike GNOME and Linux, Python does not use odd version numbers for > > > development versions. Thus 2.5 is the latest production version of > > > Python, rather than the latest development version. > > > > I know 2.5 is a stable release; my point is that this needlessly raises > > the bar to build GNOME: anyone is free to build GNOME with whatever > > version of libc6, gcc, or python that one wants to catch some bugs (in > > GNOME or in these projects), but imposing the python version to be so > > high by default seems a gratuitous change. 3 out of 5 Ubuntu releases > > do not have Python 2.5 by default, no Debian release has it and the > > next one wont have it. > > I am not proposing that GNOME modules using Python should require a > minimum Python version of 2.5. I am only proposing that "jhbuild > bootstrap" install the python 2.5 tarball instead of python 2.4. The > effect of this change is: > > 1. We start putting more emphasis on testing GNOME-over-python2.5 > rather than GNOME-over-python2.4 (the latter has already been > extensively tested over the years, while the former hasn't); > > 2. We require that GNOME modules using Python make an effort to work > on Python 2.5, in addition to Python 2.4. > > I think primarily it's a matter of which version of python we prefer > to test. I say we test GNOME with python 2.5 because it's the new > stable version of python and python 2.4 is not maintained any more.
If a program works correctly with Python 2.4, is there actually a danger of it not working correctly with 2.5? That sounds broken. I worry that this move would result in programmers using 2.5-only features. Our intrepid testers wouldn't notice, because they're building from jhbuild. But we'd create an effective 2.5 dependency that our distributors would have to deal with. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
