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Mon, 21 Feb 2005

changing the requirement to Python 2.2?

Steven's been doing development on PyBlosxom to allow for other frameworks than plain CGI. The architecture changes he's making solves some other issues as well. The problem we've bumped into is that one of the things he wants to do requires us to change the minimum Python version from 2.1 to 2.2.

Details here.

Bill noted that it's likely that PyBlosxom won't work in 2.1 as it is now anyhow. I'm not sure--I don't have Python 2.1 anymore.

So the question is would it be ok to change the minimum requirements. Some folks who cannot change the version of Python they have will have issues with this (obviously), but is it a good idea anyhow? Is the world at a place where it's common to require at least Python 2.2 a for projects?

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Comments:

Posted by Jason McBrayer on Tue Feb 22 09:55:30 2005
I'm excited about the idea of using pyblosxom on something other than CGI.  Specifically, I'd like to use it on fastcgi.  I had toyed with the idea of doing a fastcgi handler for it myself, but never got around to it.

As for the python 2.2 requirement:  I had a look at a couple of more conservative linux distributions to see what they're bundling.  RH Enterprise Linux seems to be on 2.2.3, which is fine.  Debian stable, however is on 2.1.3.  I don't know how many people that would affect.


Posted by Cleopus on Wed Feb 23 02:38:30 2005
Debian stable has python 2.2.1, it's just not the default python (you can have 2.1 and 2.2 installed concurrently).

Just go with python2.2+. It's been out for ages, and it's not like it's hard to build for people with stone age installs.


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