From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P0FMB-0001ty-KP for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:11:09 +0200 Received: from svr-orw-exc-08.mgc.mentorg.com ([147.34.98.97]) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtp id 1P0FLz-0006Mx-PL from Tom_Rini@mentor.com for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:10:55 -0700 Received: from na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com ([134.86.114.213]) by SVR-ORW-EXC-08.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:10:55 -0700 Received: from [172.30.80.16] ([172.30.80.16]) by na2-mail.mgc.mentorg.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:10:54 -0600 Message-ID: <4CA0B3FC.5020709@mentor.com> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:10:52 -0700 From: Tom Rini Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: <4C9CD59D.30301@cbnco.com> <4CA05EBB.6080604@ge.com> In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Sep 2010 15:10:54.0518 (UTC) FILETIME=[2E2E5D60:01CB5E56] X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.94.38.131 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: Tom_Rini@mentor.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: Minimum python version - 2.4 or 2.5? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:11:09 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael Smith wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Martyn Welch wrote: > >> Unless something has changed in he last few months, I think we wanted to >> support 2.4 for a little while longer: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org/msg06143.html > > Hmm, so RHEL5 is still using Python 2.4. > > SLES10 is in the same situation, but installing Python from source worked > seamlessly for me. Maybe we could require RHEL5 users to upgrade Python. > Bitbake 1.10 also requires Python 2.5 and runs about 30% faster than 1.8, > so there's good reason for RHEL5 users to want to switch. Here's my once again whine for not adding deps for things that RHEL users can't get via the official channels. Yes, they can install things from source and that's not nice. Now, if you want to talk about making bitbake 1.10.0 the minimum for OE, that's another story. -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation