On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org> wrote:
> > [Douglas Mencken] > > # fix (wrong in year 2011) python2-specific syntax > > sed -i 's/IOError, e/IOError as e/' ./build/getversion.py > > To clarify: Doug wanted this so he could build using Python 3. I've > explained that we don't support Python 3 in the bindings, so it doesn't > really make sense to use it for building source either. > > Further checking: the new exception syntax is new to Python 2.6. > Given that this script is only used in dev builds (not from tarballs), > someone remind me: what's our Py version requirement for dev builds? > It is not specified in INSTALL. > > In our 1.6 release we bumped it up to 2.4. I believe it was 2.2 before that. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
