From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:21:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] t/t5800: skip if python version is older than 2.5
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Heya,

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 02:13, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:
> This test script depends on the git-remote-testgit python script.  This
> python script makes use of the hashlib module which was released in python
> version 2.5.  So, add a new pre-requisite named PYTHON_2_5_OR_NEWER to
> test-lib.sh and check for it in t5800.

Perhaps instead we can change git-remote-testgit to do:

"try:
import hashlib
except ImportError:
import ?? as hashlib
"

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.


-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier