Ian, I typically use Debian stable (Stretch) as a benchmark for dependency versions which has version 3.5.3 of Python3. Seeing that Debian old stable (Jessie) has Python3 version 3.4.2 and Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) is 3.5.1, I would think 3.4 would be an acceptable minimum version of Python 3 to support. Right now KiCad requires version 3.3 or greater but I'm fine with bumping it to >=3.4 if it saves us a bunch of conditional python version code. There is already enough of that with python2/3.
Cheers, Wayne On 5/24/19 6:02 AM, Ian McInerney wrote: > I am in the process of fixing a bug related to the importing of the > plugins (https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1828595), and the root > cause is a change that was made between python 2 and 3 in which module > contains the reload function. > > Unfortunately it isn't as simple for the python 3 side of things, since > the reload() function has been moved around in both 3.2 and 3.4, so the > current solution I have would only support python >3.4 and also python > 2. This leads to the question, what is the minimum python version that > kicad requires the user to have installed? Do we need to add in the > support for versions between 3.0 and 3.4? Doing this seems like it will > complicate the code, since we will essentially be left with if blocks to > import/call functions based on every conceivable python version. > > -Ian > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
