-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/2012 09:47 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Oct 16, 2012, at 05:32 AM, Trent Nelson wrote: > >> Anyway, back to the original question: does anyone know of reasons >> we shouldn't bump to 2.69? Any known incompatibilities? > > There will be problems building with 2.69 on Ubuntus older than > 12.10, and Debians older than wheezy. > > % rmadison autoconf autoconf | 2.61-4 | hardy | source, > all autoconf | 2.65-3ubuntu1 | lucid | source, all autoconf | > 2.67-2ubuntu1 | natty | source, all autoconf | 2.68-1ubuntu1 | > oneiric | source, all autoconf | 2.68-1ubuntu2 | precise | > source, all autoconf | 2.69-1ubuntu1 | quantal | source, all % > rmadison -u debian autoconf autoconf | 2.67-2 | squeeze | source, all > autoconf | 2.69-1 | wheezy | source, all autoconf | 2.69-1 | sid > | source, all > > FWIW, precise is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, so it carries Python 2.7 and 3.2. > I think it would be fine to update the default branch (i.e. 3.4), but > I'm not sure what benefit you gain from making this change to stable > branches, and you could potentially cause build problems, which you > may not find out about for a while, e.g. when 2.7.4 is released and > all the distros go to update.
Agreed: this is really the same issue as bumping the VisualStudio version (or any other build tooling) inside a release line: too much potential for breakage for little gain. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlB9eq8ACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ5gWQCcDDjMRWcUDagb6dhZCK+5pSVs dVIAoLH+S205plmi22RS0aBaF5GxnTmn =PrEy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
