Chromium already uses the installed python for Mac/Linux, which defaults to 2.5. So it sounds like we can safely use 2.5.
Ojan On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <mar...@chromium.org>wrote: > FYI, Chromium folks on Windows will be on python 2.6 real soon(tm). > The CL to bug them to upgrade should be committed within the next few > minutes. > > [Thread hijack] > > If you're not a Chromium-Webkit committer running on Windows, please > ignore the rest of this email. > > Otherwise, please "del depot_tools\python.bat" and run "gclient". > > Thanks, > > M-A > > 2010/3/19 Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org>: > > Awesome! > > > > /me goes and comments on the bug. > > > > Adam > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Chris Jerdonek <cjerdo...@webkit.org> > wrote: > >> Mechanize (and ClientForm on which it depends) does work with Python > 2.4: > >> > >> http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ > >> > >> (See the section on compatibility.) > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote: > >>> My understanding is that some of the libraries we use, like Mechanize, > >>> don't work in Python 2.4. My complaint in Bug 36063 is that we're > >>> re-implementing Mechanize poorly. I'd rather we just upgraded the > >>> machines that need to run-webkit-tests to a more modern version of > >>> Python. > >>> > >>> Adam > >>> > >>> > >>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Chris Jerdonek <cjerdo...@webkit.org> > wrote: > >>>> No one responded back with a summary of the Python 2.4 discussion, so > >>>> I'll attempt a summary of my own after reading-- > >>>> > >>>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35584 > >>>> > >>>> (If you recall, we are trying to decide what Python code we write > >>>> needs to work with Python 2.4.) > >>>> > >>>> The Chromium project still uses Python 2.4 in a significant way. Some > >>>> Chromium bots run new-run-webkit-tests using 2.4, and a number of > >>>> developers use 2.4 in their development environments. Generally > >>>> speaking, people support upgrading, but no one is spearheading an > >>>> upgrade and there is no ETA. > >>>> > >>>> For the time being, because of the bots, it seems like > >>>> new-run-webkit-tests definitely needs to keep working with 2.4. But > >>>> for the tools used more in the development environment (webkit-patch, > >>>> etc), it seems like people would be willing to find a way to make > >>>> things work with 2.5+. > >>>> > >>>> It would be pretty easy to get all of our Python code working with 2.4 > >>>> (we had a patch for this a couple weeks ago), but going back wouldn't > >>>> let us use some of the nicer constructs. And we would have to contend > >>>> with at least one bug in 2.4. > >>>> > >>>> (End of summary.) > >>>> > >>>> Plainly, the options seem to be-- > >>>> > >>>> (1) All Python 2.5+ > >>>> (2) All Python 2.4 > >>>> (3) Some combination of (1) and (2) (e.g. new-run-webkit-tests 2.4, > >>>> everything else 2.5) > >>>> > >>>> However, (1) does not seem to be an option. Personally, I'm starting > >>>> to lean more toward to (2). One reason is that we are already > >>>> starting to see a case of re-implementing in Python 2.4 (for > >>>> new-run-webkit-tests) code that was already written in 2.5: > >>>> > >>>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36063#c4 > >>>> > >>>> I also think it would be helpful if we did not need to have this > >>>> discussion for each new script we decide to write in Python. I would > >>>> be willing to update the patch from a couple weeks ago that adjusts > >>>> things for 2.4. > >>>> > >>>> --Chris > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Chris Jerdonek <cjerdo...@webkit.org> > wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:43 PM, David Kilzer <ddkil...@webkit.org> > wrote: > >>>>>> On Thu, March 4, 2010 at 5:35:08 PM, William Siegrist wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Since I have a Tiger machine handy, I tested this and was able to > build python > >>>>>>> 2.5.5 from MacPorts on a PowerPC. It takes a while, but it worked. > I did not try > >>>>>>> python 2.6. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I've installed python 2.6.4 using MacPorts on my PowerBook G4 > running Tiger 10.4.11, and it's worked find with webkit-patch the one or two > times I tried it. > >>>>> > >>>>> That sounds great. Thanks a lot, Dave and Bill. So does it seem > safe > >>>>> to say, then, that folks on 2.3 can upgrade if it ever becomes > >>>>> necessary to use one of the tools? > >>>>> > >>>>> As for Python 2.4, I haven't been following the discussion as closely > >>>>> since it seems to affect Chromium developers more. Can someone > >>>>> summarize the state of the discussion there -- does it seem like > there > >>>>> is a consensus? > >>>>> > >>>>> --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 >
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