I think we should ignore Tiger for the purposes of this discussion. Back to the original question: does anyone have reasons to need 2.4?
-eric On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> wrote: > There difference between Python 2.3 and 2.5 is pretty large. What was added > was not esoteric. Take a look > at http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.4.html and http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/2.5.html Included > in there is stuff like try/catch/finally. > I totally agree that basic tools (like build-webkit, run-safari, and maybe > even stuff like prepare-ChangeLog) need to run on all supported platforms. > But how much time is actually spent working on Tiger only bugs? 1% max? > Do we really need convenience tools like webkit-patch to run in such > environments? That seems like a major waste of time and effort. I.e. the > amount of time spent keeping it working in Tiger will be > the amount of > time it saves developers there. > I don't have an opinion on the bug specifically (it's kind of in a grey > area), but I manding all scripts run in Tiger seems counter productive. > J > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Sam Weinig <sam.wei...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I am not sure why we would make a distinction between development tools >> and and supported platforms. Any scripts checked in need to run on Tiger. If >> we need to fix a Tiger bug, we boot up Tiger and develop there. >> -Sam >> >> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:47 PM, David Levin <le...@chromium.org> wrote: >>> >>> I think it depends on the tool. >>> Since tiger is still supported by webkit (it is in the buildbot), then >>> any script that run during the build or running layout tests would need to >>> run on python 2.3.5. (The version that shipped with Tiger.) >>> Some development still happens on Leopard (I think), so it seems like >>> general development tools should support python 2.5.1. >>> dave >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Chris Jerdonek <cjerdo...@webkit.org> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Recently, there has been some off-list discussion about the minimum >>>> Python version WebKit should support (i.e. for the Python scripts in >>>> WebKitTools/Scripts). >>>> >>>> Up to this point, we haven't been explicit about it. This ambiguity >>>> has occasionally caused things to break for people using versions >>>> before Python 2.6. >>>> >>>> It seems pretty clear that we at least want to support Python 2.5. >>>> The question that still remains is how many people are using Python >>>> 2.4, and whether Python 2.4 is worth supporting. >>>> >>>> This thread collects a lot of the discussion: >>>> >>>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35584 >>>> >>>> Does anyone want us to support Python 2.4, or are people okay with >>>> Python 2.5? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> --Chris >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> webkit-dev mailing list >>>> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >>>> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> webkit-dev mailing list >>> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >>> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
