Re: Python < 2.5 anyone?

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le lundi 24 décembre 2007, à 14:46 +0100, Olav Vitters a écrit :
> I've been changing convert-to-tarballs.py and realised that it now
> requires Python 2.5. Does anyone have 2.4? I can maybe support that (I'd
> rather not though).
> 
> Changes I've made up to now:
>  * General cleanup of the Python code
>  * Sort of handle the gtksourceview-1.0 case
>  * Allow to call convert-to-tarballs.py from another directory
>  * Waf support (meaning, the <waf> XML bits)
>  * The following works on a 'proper' setup: convert-to-tarballs.py -v 2.11.91
>    (the location of the gnome-2.22.modules + tarball location)
>  * Determine latest tarball versions on download.gnome.org using sftp.
>    This to avoid mirror lag
>    Notes: 
>     - Still downloads using http
>     - Requires: python-paramiko package, ssh-agent setup, configured
>       username for master.gnome.org in ~/.ssh/config and
>       master.gnome.org should appear in ~/.ssh/known_hosts
>     - Automatically falls back to http if sftp support is not working
>       (not in all cases)
>     - Need to add a connection cache as logging in is slow
>  * Handle http redirects a bit better (download.gnome.org), this
>    avoids ~ 50 secs of redirects (could be further improved)

Great work, Olav!

Vincent

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