+1 On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, Jake Farrell <jfarr...@apache.org> wrote:
> +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<javascript:;> > >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 > > > -- -=Bill
