> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d...@daniel.shahaf.name]
> Sent: vrijdag 13 februari 2015 11:25
> To: dev@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Minimum Python requirement for autogen.sh?
>
> The attached patch makes autogen.sh support Python 3. However, it
> increases the minimal Python requirement from 2.5 to 2.6 for people who
> run autogen.sh or build on Windows. The minimum Python required for
> 'make check' on Unix is unaffected and remains 2.5.
>
> Python 2.6 was released in 2008, aka, when Subversion 1.5.2 was current.
>
> Okay to bump the minimum?
Your patch changes subversion/tests/libsvn_subr/subst_translate-test.c ?
RE:
[[
+# TODO: The makefile generator opens our source files in text mode, which
+# depends on the locale. We should either set the locale to a known value,
+# or teach the makefile generator to open source files as UTF-8 text
+# regardless of locale.
]]
So does the C compiler, so I don't really see a problem.
There shouldn't be unescaped high 'ascii' in our source files.
Bert
>
> Daniel
>
> P.S. I didn't test with Python 2.6 since I didn't have a copy handy, but
> I tested with 2.7 and confirmed via Python's online docs that the
> requisite syntax and library interfaces had been introduced in 2.6.
