Re: GNOME 2.20 Python version

[Loïc Minier <lool+gnome via ecp fr>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
>   I'd like to suggest updating jhbuild to install Python 2.5 instead of
> 2.4 for GNOME 2.20, because:
>   * I don't think Python 2.4 will continue to be maintained;
>   * Distributions that will receive GNOME 2.20 will most likely make
> python 2.5 the default (ubuntu already does for GNOME 2.18);
>   * We could really use the testing of GNOME on Python 2.5, especially
> on 64-bit systems.

 My understanding is that you're trying to do some Python QA in the
 jhbuild moduleset, but what's the point of testing Python in GNOME?
 Shouldn't the focus be on the GNOME stack instead of its dependencies?

 (While we're at it: Debian still has Python 2.4 as default.)

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Loïc Minier <lool dooz org>