Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] python: make tools/python/xen/util/fileuri.py work on python 2.3

[Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.

Thank you for taking care of old python.
Kuwamura-san could give more detailed informations.
Actually one of my testing environment is a very old distro,
so I just fixed the version issue ad hoc to make xend boot.

I don't know about the xen official policy with python version.
I'm afraid that the document you referred isn't well-maintained.

thanks,

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:07:29PM +0200, Andreas Florath wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> It would be nice, if you can please provide some more information:
> especially the OS / Distribution (Version) you are using.  I looked
> around but did not find any Linux distribution nowadays which still
> comes with python2.3 - even Debian etch (which is known to be 'stable'
> :-)  ) comes with python 2.4.4.
> 
> Looking though the xen-unstable tree I found at least two different
> supported python version numbers:
> 
>    1. 'README' : ... Development install of Python v2.3 or later...
>    2. './docs/src/user.tex': ... Development installation of Python v2.2
>       or later ...
> 
> Are there any guidelines (written or unwritten) which python version to
> support for new patches?
> IMHO at least 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6 should be supported.
> When interpreting the documentation literally also python 3 should work.
> Must 2.3 and maybe even 2.2 be supported?
> 
> Is there some kind of roadmap saying e.g.: xen 3.6 will be the last
> version which supports python 2.3? Or: starting from xen 4.0 python 3
> will be supported?
> 
> Background:
> The feature was removed from the repository because of another bug
> report.  But before providing a corrected version, I want to be sure
> that I'll get all aspects of the changes send in the meantime; 
> especially here to test the feature with all supported python versions.
> 
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Andreas Florath
> 
> 

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yamahata

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