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Re: [StGIT] Failure to install on RHELWS4

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Jul 11, 2008, 20:07 UTC
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<20080711200735.GK10347@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To
<200807112126.39729.trast@student.ethz.ch>
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:26:29PM +0200, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
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> > 	    pyver = '.'.join(str(n) for n in sys.version_info)
> > 	                              ^
> [...]
> > Python version is 2.3.4
> 
> That is indeed too old.  Generator expressions like the above were
> introduced in 2.4:
> 
>   http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0289/
So obviously it's a bad idea to use generators for such a version check.
Also, setup.py would try to import stgit.run before the version check.

I'm sending two patches, which restore the wished "Python version 2.4 or newer required. Found 2.2.1.final.0" error message.

(Tested with Python 2.2.1.)
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Message 3 of 8 in “[StGIT] Failure to install on RHELWS4”
  1. Petr BaudisJul 11, 2008
  2. Thomas RastJul 11, 2008
  3. Miklos VajnaJul 11, 2008
  4. setup.py: fix error message when running with python-2.3Miklos Vajna, Jul 11, 2008
  5. setup.py: don't try to import stgit.run before the python version checkMiklos Vajna, Jul 11, 2008
  6. Karl HasselströmJul 16, 2008
  7. Karl HasselströmJul 12, 2008
  8. Catalin MarinasJul 11, 2008

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