On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:47 PM, James Antill wrote: > Yeh, it's all easy and should work ... a lot of it looks ugly as sin > though, and is annoyingly incompatible with anything before 2.6 for no > other reason (and does nothing until pycurl is ported). > > In theory we can go the sys.exc_info()[1] route for exceptions, and we > don't really need print for the urlgrabber module (and AFAIK the raise > changes are compatible with RHEL-5's python). But it's even more ugly, > and I'm not sure it's worth it. > > I guess give it a week or so and if nobody speaks up that they really > need python-2.4 compatibility, push it. Might be worth pinging the > Debian maintainer, as they have a more multi-version python stuff than > anyone else.
I'm a Debian maintainer who happens to be on list, I can speak up for Debian and Ubuntu. Python >= 2.6 should be fine for any new upstream releases. All current or supported releases of Debian and Ubuntu have some version of 2.6 or higher, except Ubuntu 8.04 LTS which is on 2.5 (LTS is similar to RHEL). The current default version for both is 2.7.3. I also happen to be a RHEL5 python 2.4 user and I personally have no complaints from that perspective. We have successfully upgraded yum from the original vendor version, but have not yet had a need to upgrade urlgrabber. HTH. -- mike _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
