On 4 September 2015 at 16:47, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > We currently require Python 2.4, and have a bit of special code for > Python older than 2.6. I could use a module that's available since 2.6. > > Python 2.4 is from 2004. We require GLib 2.22, which from 2009. Makes > me suspect we don't actually support any system with such an old Python > anymore. > > I vaguely remember we settled for GLib 2.22 due to some version of SLES. > If that's correct: what version of Python does it provide?
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/11-SP3/#fate-313238 suggests SLES11sp3 is Python 2.6.6. RHEL6 is also a Python 2.6. 2.6 will work on OSX back to 10.6 (and if you're on 10.5 you're building so much other stuff for build-dependencies, including a complete C compiler and linker, that having to scrape up a python is probably the least of your worries...) So I think we should be able to move our requirement up to Python 2.6 (but no further). thanks -- PMM
