From: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:02:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Why does git-core 0.99.7 require python 2.4?
Message-ID: <20050919200222.GA11322@c165.ib.student.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <432F0C66.7060402@zytor.com>

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:07:18PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I just tried to update the kernel.org hosts to git-core 0.99.7, but I 
> got stuck due to the fact that git-core 0.99.7 requires python >= 2.4, 
> which isn't in RHEL4 (python-2.3.2) nor in FC3 (python-2.3.4).
> 
> Updating Python beyond what the distribution provides is a major operation.
> 
> Can it be changed to work with python 2.3, to give a bit of leeway?
> 

It is git-merge-recursive which wants Python 2.4. Unfortunately Python
2.3 do not ship with the 'subprocess' module which is currently used
by the 'recursive' merge strategy. RPMs for Python 2.4 can be
downloaded from http://www.python.org/2.4.1/rpms.html

Python isn't used by the rest of Git so if you don't use the recursive
merge strategy it will work fine without Python.

Not supporting one of the major Linux distributions isn't ideal
though, so maybe we should do something about this. I will have a look
at rewriting the code to not use subprocess.

- Fredrik