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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2013, #11; Wed, 30)

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 30, 2013, 19:17 UTC
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John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk> writes:
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> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:33:10AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> [Discarded]
>> 
>> * jk/update-install-for-p4 (2013-01-20) 1 commit
>>  . INSTALL: git-p4 doesn't support Python 3
>> 
>>  Made obsolete by bc/git-p4-for-python-2.4 topic.
>
> I disagree with this - that branch doesn't change INSTALL to list "not
> Python 3" in the supported versions.
>
> Brandon, would you mind doing s/2.4 or later/2.4 - 2.7/ on your branch?
Thanks for being a careful reader.
Let's do something like this on top of the topic.
 INSTALL | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b96e16d..2dc3b61 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -131,8 +131,9 @@ Issues of note:
 	  use English. Under autoconf the configure script will do this
 	  automatically if it can't find libintl on the system.
 
-	- Python version 2.4 or later is needed to use the git-p4
-	  interface to Perforce.
+	- Python version 2.4 or later (but not 3.x, which is not
+	  supported by Perforce) is needed to use the git-p4 interface
+	  to Perforce.
 
  - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
    but depending on your specific installation, you may not
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