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

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2005, 21:49 UTC
Message-ID: <432F3253.3070201@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v7jdclpme.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
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>>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.)
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> It sounds like the right thing to do, not that I know much about
> how RPM world deals with situations like this (aside from what I
> learnt from the list).  If we go this route probably we should
> the same for gitk and git-send-email as well?
>

I thought about it some more, and it really comes down to what you actually want to do with the recursive merge stuff. If you want it to be part of the standard git core, then probably the right thing is to just make it work with a lower baseline.

	-hpa