On Mar 24, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Peter Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:58:14PM +0100, Pascal Quantin wrote: >> 2015-03-22 16:48 GMT+01:00 Peter Wu <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Triggered by a build error due to html2text.py, I have recently started >>> with adding Python 3 support to various Python scripts[1][2]. The change >>> to html2text.py[1] was tested with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.4. >>> >>> The configure script however checks for Python >= 2.5 which was first >>> released in 2006 with the last security update in 2011. This version >>> also lacks support for nice language constructs such as 'with'. >>> checklicenses.py is already incompatible with this. >>> >>> Any objections if this gets bumped to 2.6 or even 2.7? The >>> dfilter-test.py script already requires 2.7 (or newer). >>> >> >> Hi Peter, >> >> the OSX 10.5 x86 buildbot still runs Python 2.5, so bumping the minimum >> Python version would require updating the buildbot. So it's better to keep >> compatibility for the scripts used during build steps. >> >> Pascal. > > According to the ComputerWorld source listed by Wikipedia[1], OS X 10.5 > became unsupported since June 2011. Python 2.5 also does not receive > security updates anymore. (OS X 10.6 has Python 2.7 which is still > supported.)
The OS X x86 buildbot is running 10.6 (and building against the 10.5 SDK and building with a "minimum deployment version" of 10.5). So the question is whether we care about users trying to build Wireshark on a 10.5 system. macosx-setup.sh doesn't work on 10.5, when last I looked at it, so it's a bit harder to set up building on 10.5. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
