On 07/26/2017 10:48 AM, David Malcolm wrote: > On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 18:35 +0200, Pierre-Marie de Rodat wrote: >> On 07/26/2017 06:25 PM, David Malcolm wrote: >>> str.format was introduced in Python 2.6, so presumably the minimum >>> python 2 version here is at least 2.6+; for Python 3 I believe it >>> was >>> present in Python 3.0 onwards. >> >> Hm… Python 2.6 is fairly old: last binary release was ages ago, last >> source release was in 2013. Do you think it’s worth supporting it? > > IIRC RHEL 6 has Python 2.6 as its /usr/bin/python (but Python 2.7 is > available as a "software collection" add-on). Given the age of RHEL 6, I wouldn't get too hung up on on supporting it for this stuff. Hell, it's EOL in just a few short years.
> > I don't know if gcc as a project would want to support 2.6+ or simply > 2.7 for Python 2. If it was trivial, then let's support 2.6. But if it's nontrivial, I'd support stepping to something more modern. Jeff
