[oe] bitbake-trunk python version dependency

[Chris Larson]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Richard Purdie<rpurdie at rpsys.net> wrote:
> I just looked at bitbake trunk again and it appears to be broken with
> python 2.6. The reason is we made some nasty hacks to the SocketServer
> to enable idle callbacks and these have predictably broken on us.
>
> The nice thing is in 2.6 a feature was added which lets us do what we
> need as standard rather than hacking it in.
>
> The question is therefore whether we make 2.6 the minimum version and
> have no hacks or have some horrible workarounds for 2.5.
>
> Unless anyone seriously objects I'm going to go with 2.6 as the minimum
> version for bitbake trunk. By the time trunk is usable, 2.6 should be
> pretty widespread.
>
> Note this does not affect the 1.8 series which still has python 2.4 as
> its minimum version and will continue to do so.

2.6 sounds good to me for that branch, as you say, by the time it's
released it should be widespread.
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Chris Larson
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clarson at mvista dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Software Engineer
MontaVista Software, Inc.