-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/08/2013 02:58 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Greetings all, > > Fedora Infrastructure develops a python module called python-fedora > which can be used to connect to the web services that we run > (Bodhi, packagedb, etc). This is used by fedpkg, pkgdb-cli, and a > variety of ad hoc scripts that people are running on their > systems. > > As the developers of this software, we would like to move to > supporting python-2.6 and higher. Among other things, this will > let us start considering a move to python3. python-2.6 is > available in RHEL6 and python-2.7 is available in all current > Fedora releases. However, RHEL5 has python-2.4. If we move to > python-2.6 the version of python-fedora in EPEL5 will slowly lose > functionality as its code is not updated while the web applications > that the library talks to gain and remove features and change their > API. > > The question that we have as the developers of python-fedora is > whether this will be a problem for anyone. If the users of this > library have moved on to RHEL6 and current Fedora, then we're fine > with allowing the version in EPEL to slowly bit-rot; backporting > only security fixes. However, if people are actively running code > that depends on python-fedora working on RHEL5 then it's probably > better for us to maintain python-2.4 compatibility, at least for > the time being. > > So if you use this directly or run fedpkg or other scripts which > require it on RHEL5 please speak up and let me know that we need to > continue targeting python-2.4. If you send replies to this list, > I'll see that the information is passed back to the infrastructure > list and team. > > (And note, eventually we will have to move to a newer python > version. If we choose to stay with python-2.4 now we'll reevaluate > periodically to figure out when the time has come to move > forward.) > > Thanks, Toshio > > > This may seem like an obvious question, but why not simply have python-fedora Requires: python26 from EPEL? Wouldn't this avoid the issue entirely? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFjFC0ACgkQeiVVYja6o6NhoQCfSiyDqYjtXs9RN1YJfSXq4OAy j5oAnivOaRb5dXmtOvxy2V9rmpnOoYEv =rrsp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
