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

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Yannick Brosseau (yannick.brosseau at gmail.com) wrote:
> 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.

For our python scripts to work, do we need python 3 to be default ?

About RHEL6, interesting links:

http://www.muktware.com/5203/google-says-red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-obsolete

Something to think about ;)

Jérémie: how much extra effort would be required to support python 2.7+
(only) as well as python 3 ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
> 
> 
> > 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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Mathieu Desnoyers
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