Re: python 2.7 in wheezy

2011-10-06 Thread Thomas Waldmann
Cool! Not for squeeze (as I discussed recently), but it is nice to hear that we don't have the same "no python 2.7" issue in wheezy, but even have it as default then. Considering that it'll take a while until wheezy gets stable, I hope there is also a python 3.x (x=rather latest) then, so that pr

Re: Python 2.7 for Squeeze?

2011-10-04 Thread Thomas Waldmann
> virtualenv uses python-support, so to get it to work under 2.7, you'd > have to change python-support, which means everything else using > python-support would have to be 2.7 compatible. > > > Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic, but this sounds like an impossibly > big task for doing properly

Re: Python 2.7 for Squeeze?

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Waldmann
Hi Miguel, Scott, > > It looks like python2.7 is easily backporteable to squeeze. Good news! :) > > You can take a look at [1]. I rebuilt it without modifications but it > > probably needs some testing. I'll test it with virtualenv later. > > Are you aware that preparing a backport is not an

Python 2.7 for Squeeze?

2011-10-01 Thread Thomas Waldmann
Hi, I am new to this list (but I have skimmed last few months of the archive), so excuse me if I have missed some discussion. I am one of the core devs of MoinMoin Wiki and we currently require python 2.6 for MoinMoin 2.0 (alpha). There are some reasons why we would maybe like to require 2.7: *