Re: [PATCH 1/5] t/t5800: skip if python version is older than 2.5

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2010, 09:33 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTilMBZ_m71dPoH8mU6e9wfYybljV9bE2p_Bl9C0g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinQrdJeTxoZ207kvv5R_3qUj5ocGgAlC22SQyOg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 06:21, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:

> Otoh, python 2.5 has been out for a while (and is in fact only
> downloadable as a source-only release these days). To be exact, it was
> released on September 19, 2006.

As a trivia: most of our Perl code is still 5.6 compatible. That'd be like supporting Python 1.6 (or actually, 1.5.2, 1.6 came out half a year after Perl 5.6).

Anyway, dying in the program as you suggest seems like a better idea.

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