[Sugar-devel] sugar-datastore configure.ac should check for Python 2.5 or higher

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 14:58, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Sugar-datastore uses constructs failing with Python older than 2.5:
> queue.join, queue.task_done, check_call, nested try-except-finally and
> fancy locking using "with".
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> Until now I patched the sources for Debian to work also with Python 2.4.
> If interested in keeping the code backwards compatible I can provide
> those patches.

I'm not sure if we are in a position to support anything older than
python 2.5, though of course compatibility with more systems would be
great.

> If you don't want to change the code, then you really should change
> configure.in to check for Python version of at least 2.5.

Will do, have entered this ticket:

http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/911

Thanks,

Tomeu

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> Same might apply to other Python libraries as well.
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> Kind regards,
>
>  - Jonas
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