On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faer...@web.de> > wrote: >> Am 25.04.2012 11:42, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: >>> The newer "except <exception-type> as <exception>:" syntax is not >>> supported by Python 2.5, we need to use "except <exception-type>, >>> <exception>:". >>> >>> Tested all trace backends with Python 2.5.6. >>> >>> Reported-by: Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> >>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >> >> Lightly >> >> Tested-by: Andreas Färber <andreas.faer...@web.de> >> >> Works with: >> 2.5.1 (Mac OS X v10.5.8), >> 2.6.1 (Mac OS X v10.6.8) and >> 2.6.4 (OpenIndiana oi_151a). >> >> Thanks a lot! >> >> However, it still breaks with different errors on Python 2.3.3 and 2.4.6 >> (Solaris 10 U9). > > Solaris releases tend to be supported for a very long time. I don't > think we should restrict ourselves to glib, python, and other > dependencies from the Solaris 10 era (actually Solaris 9 is still > supported too!). > > We need to draw the line somewhere. Python 2.5 was released on > September 19, 2006. It's available for Mac ppc and Solaris.
I just noticed that RHEL 5 ships Python 2.4, which means a lot of RHEL/CentOS 5 hosts that are still out there will also break. Let's bring back the requirement to Python 2.4. Stefan
