Hyrum K Wright wrote on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 16:04:06 -0600: > I find myself wanting to use the 'with' statement in the test suite, > which was introduced in Python 2.5 Python 2.5 was released 5.5 years > ago, and while I'm sure somebody on some archaic platform somewhere > doesn't have it installed, I think we can reasonably assume that > Python 2.5 is generally available. For reference, we currently > require and SQLite that is only 2.5-years-old. >
We require SQLite 3.6.18 because it contains a bug fix we need, not because we think it's "old enough". http://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_6_18.html > (And for the historically minded among us, let's please don't repeat > the same bikeshed we had when we bumped to Python 2.4 3 years ago: > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-01/0266.shtml) > > I would like to recommend we bump our minimum required version for the > test suite and development tools to Python 2.5. > > Thoughts? > > -Hyrum > > > -- > > uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy > http://www.uberSVN.com/
