Re: Minimum Required Python Version

2012-09-09 Thread Paul ADENOT
On 09/09/2012 10:31 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Paul ADENOT wrote: The next Ubuntu release will include Python 3, and not Python 2.x (on a default install). However, as you note, Python 2.7 will be available as a separate package. I just wanted to mention that,

Re: Minimum Required Python Version

2012-09-09 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Paul ADENOT wrote: > The next Ubuntu release will include Python 3, and not Python 2.x (on a > default install). > > However, as you note, Python 2.7 will be available as a separate package. I > just wanted to mention that, considering the number of people that use

Re: gps support in g2g

2012-09-09 Thread 陳侃如
Hi, albert.vi...@gmail.com writes: > Just read about new OS for mobile devices and am anxious to learn more > about it. We are presently developing a mobile banking app for Latin > America using Android, but the new G2G system seems ideal for our > market. Can anyone out there throw some light

Re: Minimum Required Python Version

2012-09-09 Thread Ralph Giles
On 12-09-09 12:54 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > So, 2.6 or 2.7? 2.7. It's fairly widely deployed these days and has some nice features over 2.6. Upgrading our build slaves won't be any more work for the one or the other. I believe MacOS 10.6 ships with 2.6, but not 2.7, if that's a drawback. -r

Re: Minimum Required Python Version

2012-09-09 Thread Justin Lebar
> So, 2.6 or 2.7? I'm totally in favor of using the latest and greatest that's available. As additional background: Python 2.7 is the last major release in the Python 2 line [1]. So the next time we have this discussion about upgrading our Python requirement, we won't be choosing between version

Re: Minimum Required Python Version

2012-09-09 Thread Paul ADENOT
Linux distros are all over the map. Many include 2.7 as part of the standard distribution. If they don't, they often include a "python27" package. Or, at least it is a popular enough package that someone on the internets provides an RPM, .deb, etc. We would just need to point people at those in th

Minimum Required Python Version

2012-09-09 Thread Gregory Szorc
The subject of which version of Python to require to build the tree came up in bug 784841. We currently require Python >= 2.5 but <3 to build the tree. The main reason for the 2.5 requirement is the Linux build slaves still run Python 2.5. Those of us who code Python for the tree have long wan

Python device manager code for Android + B2G moved

2012-09-09 Thread William Lachance
Just a heads up: In an effort to help facilitate code mirroring between mozilla-central and the mozbase project (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Auto-tools/Projects/MozBase), I've moved most of the python device manager files used for mobile testing (both for Android and B2G) from `build/mobile` to `t