[oe] Supported Python version for OE?

[Khem Raj]

On (10/05/10 17:04), Joshua Lock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A question, (perhaps for the TSC?):
> 
> 	"What's the minimum Python version we want to support in OE?"
> 
> According to the wiki we support Python 2.4 and above but I wonder if
> people have any thoughts with regards to bumping it?

I think it was in recent discussions that we now use new 2.5+ features
so it should be bumped for git master atleast.

> 
> The reason I ask is because I had a user contact me about using Python
> 2.5 features (str.partition) in relocatable.bbclass, I hadn't even
> noticed this and seems like not many others have but it's clearly
> affecting at least one person.
> 
> I have a pretty trivial (if ugly) patch to work around this, but it
> raised an interesting question so I thought I'd ask that before sending
> the patch.
> 
> Cheers,
> Joshua
> -- 
> Joshua Lock
>         Intel Open Source Technology Centre
> 
> 
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