On do, 2012-12-20 at 10:30 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Which platforms that are long-term-maintained by their vendors still
> pin their Python at 2.4.X?
RHEL 5.x and its clones still use python 2.4. It is supported by red hat
until at least 2017 (though end of production phase two, Q1 2014, se
"Joachim Schmitz" writes:
>> From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gits...@pobox.com]
>> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 7:28 PM
>> To: Joachim Schmitz
>> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: Python version auditing followup
>>
>> "Joachim Sch
> From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gits...@pobox.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2012 7:28 PM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Python version auditing followup
>
> "Joachim Schmitz" writes:
>
> >> > We have a workin
"Joachim Schmitz" writes:
>> > We have a working 2.4.2 for HP-NonStop and some major problems getting
>> > 2.7.3 to work.
>>
>> I do not think a platform that stops at 2.4.2 instead of going to
>> higher 2.4.X series deserves to be called "long term maintained by
>> their vendors". It sounds mo
> From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gits...@pobox.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:39 PM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Python version auditing followup
>
> "Joachim Schmitz" writes:
>
> > Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
"Joachim Schmitz" writes:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I personally would think 2.6 is recent enough. Which platforms that
>> are long-term-maintained by their vendors still pin their Python at
>> 2.4.X? 2.4.6 was in 2008 that was source only, 2.4.4 was in late
>> 2006 that was the last 2.4 with
Junio C Hamano wrote:
e...@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
That was the first of three patches I have promised. In order to do
the next one, which will be a development guidelines recommend
compatibility back to some specific version X, I need a policy
decision. How do we set X?
I don'
e...@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
> That was the first of three patches I have promised. In order to do
> the next one, which will be a development guidelines recommend
> compatibility back to some specific version X, I need a policy
> decision. How do we set X?
>
> I don't think X can
Most of the Python scripts in the distribution are small and simple to
audit, so I am pretty sure of the results. The only place where I
have a concern is the git_helpers library; that is somewhat more
complex and I might have missed a dependency somewhere. Whoever
owns that should check my findi
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