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[William Blevins]

Just to clarify.

I am assuming that the python3 baseline requires 2.7+, and the current 2.X
baseline is still supposed to support 2.6+.  If this is wrong, then I need
some clarification because "someone" informed me incorrectly or my memory
sucks or both.

V/R,
William

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 11:50 -0400, William Blevins wrote:
> > I think the short answer is yes, we are trying to support 2.6 in the
> > future.  I agree with this notion since I would like RHEL6 default python
> > support, but wouldn't cry if I had to use a custom 2.7 install.  The real
> > question here is why is there confusion about this, and why does SCons
> > since 2.3.0 complain about pre-2.7 versus pre-2.6 if we are trying to
> > support 2.6?  That is a question I cannot answer...  I think that we
> should
> > either drop 2.6 support or fix the documentation and development
> > expectations.  Maybe the confusion with 2.7 is related to python 3
> support?
> >  Once that branch roles out we probably cannot reasonably expect to
> support
> > 2.6.
>
> The problem here, as you hint at, is that a decision was made that 2.7
> was the base version, but the documentation was inconsistent with the
> decision and now people are trying to fix perfectly good 2.7 code to
> work with 2.6. The confusion is caused by the confusion :-)
>
> So we need an explicit move, either 2.7 is the base and the
> documentation changes or the 2.7 decision is rescinded and a new one to
> say 2.6 is the base is made.
>
> --
> Russel.
>
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