[lttng-dev] [PATCH babeltrace 1/2] Added Python 3.0 or better requirement to the README file

[Yannick Brosseau]

On 2013-03-13 10:06, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi Yannick,
>
> Please list all the distro and distro versions you care about that still
> ship with python 2.7 by default today, along with the time-frame for
> which they are going to still be supported by the vendors, and whether
> those distributions allow users to install python 3.0 side-by-side with
> 2.7 or not.
Just to name 2: Centos/RHEL 6.x and Debian.

CentOS/RHEL does not have a Python 3 package

Debian is default to 2.7, can install python3, but will potentially
breaks apps that rely on python 2 if I set python 3 to default.



> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
> * Jérémie Galarneau (jeremie.galarneau at efficios.com) wrote:
>> Although I agree it can prove to be an inconvenience for some users,
>> most distributions provide a Python 3 package at this point.
>>
>> The reasoning is that since these bindings are still in development
>> and won't be integrated into the master branch for some time, the
>> effort needed to develop and test them while targeting two versions of
>> Python is hard to justify.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Yannick Brosseau
>> <yannick.brosseau at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2013-02-01 08:54, Jérémie Galarneau wrote:
>>>> As for as I know, the bindings do work with Python 2.7.
>>>> However, we have decided to no longer explicitly support older
>>>> versions of Python in order to make the bindings, along with future
>>>> developments, easily maintainable.
>>>>
>>> My main concern is that 2.7 is still the default version for many linux
>>> distribution, so it might be early to drop 2.7 support.
>>>
>>> Yannick
>>>
>>>
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