Re: Kupfer and Python 2.6

[Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel chmouel com>]

Hi Ulkrik,

Debian will probably support python 2.6 in the next stable release
which can be a long way from now :-\. Make sense to wait for unstable
since mostly I believe desktops are running unstable (when server are
running stable).

Chmouel.

2009/11/5 Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik sverdrup gmail com>:
> 2009/11/5 Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel chmouel com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This make sense but debian stable is only providing python2.5 as
>> default and python2.6 as optional in unstable but not al the packages
>> dependences are compiled for 2,6. This could be a lot of users
>> (including me :()
>>
>
> Great to hear someone else uses Debian, I do too. I was not clear
> enough -- I don't want to move Kupfer until Debian supports Python
> 2.6. (I can run Kupfer on Py 2.6 right now on debian, but you have to
> 1) install python 2.6 from experimental, 2) rebuild packages pygtk,
> pygobject and dbus-python)
>
> The question is -- when does Debian support Python 2.6? When it
> reaches testing, all is good. But what if Python 2.6 stays in
> unstable? (I don't think it is likely that this would happen, it would
> only come into debian if it could immediately transition to testing).
>
> I think, as soon as Python 2.6 (and dependencies!) begin to trickle
> into unstable, we can release a Kupfer exclusively for it.
>
> Ulrik
>