[oe] Minimum python version - 2.4 or 2.5?

[Michael Smith]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Martyn Welch wrote:

> Unless something has changed in he last few months, I think we wanted to
> support 2.4 for a little while longer:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org/msg06143.html

Hmm, so RHEL5 is still using Python 2.4.

SLES10 is in the same situation, but installing Python from source worked 
seamlessly for me. Maybe we could require RHEL5 users to upgrade Python. 
Bitbake 1.10 also requires Python 2.5 and runs about 30% faster than 1.8, 
so there's good reason for RHEL5 users to want to switch.

Mike

> On 24/09/10 17:45, Michael Smith wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What's the minimum Python version requirement for the dev branch? I'd
> > like to use shutil.copytree(), but the behaviour I want was only added
> > in Python 2.5.