On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org> wrote: >> > 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. > > [Mark Phippard] >> In our 1.6 release we bumped it up to 2.4. I believe it was 2.2 >> before that. > > Eh ... that's the case for release builds, documented in INSTALL. > I thought we had a tighter Python requirement for dev builds, though.
I think we've been operating under a 2.4 assumption for dev builds, but other bits have slowly crept in. I would not be opposed to bumping the dev requirement to 2.6, as most distros seem to be running at least that these days. -Hyrum -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com/
