Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Update to diffconfig to support python 2.6 and greater

[Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>]

On 15.8.2013 17:49, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 13.8.2013 23:32, Mike Pagano wrote:
>> Modification of the diffconfig script to support python versions 2.6 and 
>> greater. 
>>
>> Note that Linux distributions are starting to deprecate python versions < 2.5
> 
> Dumb question - The original script works for me with python 2.7.3 from
> openSUSE. Does python have some strict mode that would show the problems
> you are fixing? It's always good to mention the actual error to the
> changelog.

I now tried the patched version on a system with python 2.4.2 and it
fails with:
  File "../diffconfig2", line 103
    except IOError as e:
                    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

The original version works fine with both 2.4.2 and 2.7.3. So should the
changelog actually read "drop support for python < 2.5"? What do we gain
by this change?

Thanks,
Michal