On Jul 26, 2013, at 4:59 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >> Does the hashlib backport I added to >> setuptools 0.9 for Python 2.4 work on 2.3? It's a pure python >> implementation of hashlib. > > Ah, didn't know about that! I can't imagine what problems there would > be; not much changed in 2.4 that can't be emulated in 2.3. > > Anyway, I'll have a look. Thanks!
Here's the relevant commits in the new setuptools stuff: https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/commits/330b628f38c9380c95a818e65fd56812cbc854c4 https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/commits/b1d4e48beebdcc3cf7cb06fae4c4005a85dfc9bc https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/commits/12dd4b89148a225856a060cbee1137fc4cf79736 The implementations are taken from PyPy so they are made to work on Python 2.7, but they worked just fine on 2.4 after removing a single b"". > > >> I don't have a Python 2.3 available to attempt to test. To be honest I've >> never even used Python 2.3. > > Heh. Noob. ;-) (j/k) :) I was still in high school when the last 2.3 was released :/ > > 2.3 is basically 2.4 minus decorators, generator expressions, various > builtins and stdlib features. Unless you used set types, reversed(), > or various other odds and ends, I should be able to backport it. Great! > > >> [stuff about RHEL support] > > If there's a 2.4 hashlib backport, that addresses my concerns just > fine. If I need to, I'll backport it to setuptools 0.6. Thanks. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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