Re: External Deps: Minimal Python dependency



On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:01 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 05:56:27PM +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote:
> > As mentioned in [1] sqlite is a blessed external dependency now. I want  
> > to use sqlite for Deskbar-Applet, too. Because, Python 2.5 has a  
> > built-in sqlite module I suggest increasing the minimal version to 2.5  
> > from currently 2.4.3 . Of course, Python 2.5 has more benefits [2].
> 
> What distributions have Python 2.5 and what has changed since the last
> time this came up? I know RHEL5 (buildbot) has 2.4 and it is not just a
> matter of building Python within jhbuild (breaks badly with x86_64).

Ubuntu has has shipped 2.5 as the default Python for 15 months.

I think there is another issue to keep in mind. Python 2.4 is
desupported. The Python community is not even providing security updates
for the 2.4 series. I think RHEL5 needs to provide path to 2.5.

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