Hyrum K Wright wrote on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 16:27:39 -0600: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Daniel Shahaf <danie...@elego.de> wrote: > > 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 > > Certainly. The primary point was that if somebody wants to build > Subversion (and ostensibly test it) their distro has to have software > from at least 2009, so it doesn't make much sense that our Python
get-deps.sh pulls sqlite-3.7.8-amalgamation into our build. > dependency is still rooted in 2006. > As I said on IRC, I do not object to requiring a recent Python. I am unsure that I agree with your reasoning but I won't pursue it. > -Hyrum > > >> (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/ > > > > -- > > uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy > http://www.uberSVN.com/
