[oe] Bitbake 1.12.0 released!

[Chris Larson]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Mike Westerhof <mike at mwester.net> wrote:
>> On 02/18/11 17:18, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>> Bitbake 1.12.0 has been released.
>>>
>>> http://prdownload.berlios.de/bitbake/bitbake-1.12.0.tar.gz
>
>>>
>>> This release has many cleanups and improvements to the bitbake core. The
>>> biggest and most user visible change is the parallel parsing work which
>>> is the driving reason for the release.
>>>
>>> A git log of the differences between 1.10 and 1.12 follows.
>>>
>> It's a dumb question, but what are the intended restrictions on python version
>> for running bitbake?  1.10 seems to work fine with python2.7 whereas I can
>> only get 1.12 to work with python2.6.
>
> Just to add another datapoint to the python version restrictions: it
> seems that bitbake 1.12 requires python 2.6.4 and fails with python
> 2.6.2 (which means that bitbake 1.12 doesn't work on Fedora 12 or earlier).

FYI, from some quick testing in a f12 chroot and creation of a test
case outside of bitbake, it appears we're hitting
http://bugs.python.org/issue5331, whose root cause is
http://bugs.python.org/issue5155, which refers to
http://bugs.python.org/issue5313.  Looking into this now, it's
possible we could replace the appropriate method of Process in our
subclass with the one with the fix.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics