+1 to keeping as current as possible and not introducing workarounds for older os variants. Python 2.7 is the default on Ubuntu 12.04 and OS X which is what a majority of people will use for testing/development and our Vagrant images are built around this as well. AURORA-227 introduces a check for the min python version, its in review right now and if we are going to look at setting a default min version this would be a good time to do it
-Jake On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Mark Chu-Carroll <mchucarr...@apache.org>wrote: > Folks: > > For one of the client changes I'm working on, there's a python version > compatibility issue. > > For Python 2.7 and 3.x, there's an "exec" function which I use for loading > hooks. In python 2.6, exec is a statement, an the function form doesn't > work. > > This is something that can be worked around, but the workaround is ugly - > you need to introspect to see the python version, and then choose an > implementation based on the version. > > My inclination is to say that supporting 2.7 and 3.x is sufficient, and we > shouldn't be adding new workarounds for 2.6. But I don't want to make that > decision myself for everyone. > > Do we care about continuing to support Python 2.6 for the Aurora client? > > -Mark >
