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Re: [gpsd-dev] Minimum Python Version
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] Minimum Python Version |
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Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:54:10 -0500 |
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Fred Wright <address@hidden>:
> So presumably any patch requiring >=2.6 is acceptable.
Yes.
> BTW, I currently have the MacPorts gpsd port specifically depending on
> Python 2.7. This is because the scons port currently depends specifically
> on 2.7, so it didn't seem worth the trouble to implement a variant for
> changing the Python version dependency that wouldn't work, anyway. :-)
I wouldn't take much persuading to change the requirement to 2.7.2. These
days 2.6 is the very conservative choice, but 2.7.2 the normal base level
for Python 2.
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