Per Brian's reply, it turns out that we can maintain perfect backwards compatibility for free, by using a library we already depend on.
-Mark On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Alexius Ludeman <l...@lexinator.com> wrote: > -1 > > I would highly recommend trying to be compatible with python 2.6. RHEL/OEL > 6u3-6u5 are still on python 2.6... > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Bill Farner <wfar...@apache.org> wrote: > > > +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 > > >
