Re: Why does git-core 0.99.7 require python 2.4?

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2005, 21:00 UTC
Message-ID: <432F26E9.9090707@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vslw0lqvd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> writes:
> 
>>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.
> 
> Thanks -- I personally feel that it would be best to just let FC
> catch up, solving this problem for us, while you spend your time
> on other things first.
>

The problem isn't FC, the problem is RHEL, generally used on machines for which an OS update it's huge deal.

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> Peter, if you feel strongly about it I'd do 0.99.7.1 removing
> the 'requires python >=2.4', but as Fredrik says the only thing
> that uses Python 2.4 is his recursive merge, and it is not
> something we use without the user explicitly asking for it.  We
> can consider it as the same status as send-email or archimport
> which cannot work without Perl modules necessary for their
> operation, so if you can install bypassing requires- check that
> would work equally well.

My suggestion would be to fork off the recursive merge into a separate binary package which can have the python >= 2.4 requirement (unless Fredrik just fixes it.)

	-hpa