Hi Peter, 2015-03-24 18:17 GMT+01:00 Peter Wu <[email protected]>: > 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.) Since we use Python with verified input and only for building Wireshark the security concerns don't apply here. Otherwise I think it would be OK to move to newer Python version.
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