Greg Stein wrote on Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 17:43:25 -0500: > On Feb 9, 2012 5:04 PM, "Hyrum K Wright" <hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > (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? > > 2.5 is the builtin Python on my Leopard-based Mac laptop. Fine with me, but > nothing newer for now :-) > > Is the version documented anywhere, or just in our community headspace? >
% fgrep 2.4 * | me autogen.sh:# that running gen-make.py requires Python 2.4 or newer. autogen.sh: echo "Python 2.4 or later is required to run autogen.sh" configure.ac: AC_MSG_WARN([Python 2.4 or later is required to run the testsuite]) INSTALL: 10. Python 2.4 or newer (http://www.python.org/) (OPTIONAL) INSTALL: Python 2.4 or higher on your system. The majority of the test INSTALL: * Python 2.4 or higher, downloaded from http://www.python.org/ which is Makefile.in: echo "make check: Python 2.4 or greater is required,"; \ > Cheers, > -g
