[oe] Python 2.6 for bitbake?

[Koen Kooi]

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On 13-04-10 16:11, Chris Larson wrote:
> 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:").
>>
> 
> 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.

1.10 works great, which is what I'm using now. That's why I wasn't
seeing the dependency loop issues with flex, bitbake 1.10 works as
expected with BBCLASSEXTEND, 1.8 doesn't.

regards,

Koen
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