[oe] Python 2.6 for bitbake?

[Chris Larson]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>wrote:

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> On 13-04-10 13:40, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 09:33 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> >> I just noticed bitbake master is using python 2.6, which means I can't
> >> use it at work when the official linux is still ubuntu 8.04LTS :(
> >>
> >> Can we please keep bitbake working with 8.04LTS? I suspect not only TI
> >> is on the LTS bandwagon....
> >
> > I thought we'd make the bits that were 2.6 optional? Which bits are
> > breaking and I assume you do have python 2.5 a least?
>
> Ubuntu 8.04LTS has 2.5.2 and it could that I'm blaming the brokenness in
> master on python, but it's broken nevertheless....
> When I finish doing the build I'll send the error message (was something
> with "Exception as e:").
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I started leveraging 2.6 capabilities in master, as I had thought master
required 2.6.  As far as I know, the 1.10 branch I split off before I
started this set of commits should work fine with 2.5.  Sorry for the
hassle.
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Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics