Requiring 2.5 as a build requirement seems ok to me. Requiring it to RUN Drizzle, OTOH, would not be ok.
If we do this, we need to update the build instructions in the docs, and add it to the drizzle-dev PPA. ..m On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:04 AM, pcrews <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > One of the things I'd like to do is to make dbqp the default test-runner for > Drizzle. > > The plan is to do this gradually - make it default, but keep test-run.pl, > then finally remove test-run.pl and related files. You can read more about > dbqp here - http://docs.drizzle.org/testing/dbqp.html > > The main thing keeping me from this is that we need at least Python 2.5 to > run things. It is not worth the time and frustration to try to make things > run on python 2.4 - 2.4 doesn't even have a unified try/except/finally for > crissakes ; ) This is only a problem on Red Hat, but I'd like feedback on > how to handle it (just flat-out require it, recommended packages, etc) > > My questions are: > > Does anyone have anything to say about this in general - the test-runner > switch or the 2.5 requirement > Should we just flat-out require python 2.5 for using Drizzle? Eventually, I > would like to remove all the perl test-runner stuff, so people will need to > be able to use the python tool > How would we do it? Could we just add it to the ppa and whatnot? > Can anyone provide any additional information on recommended packages for > Red Hat? I'd like to document this and also see about updating our Jenkins > Red Hat machines to try things out? > > Thanks, > Patrick > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
