[webkit-dev] Removing Support for Python 2.5

Adam Barth abarth at webkit.org
Fri Nov 4 16:03:45 PDT 2011


I misremembered.  Looking at depot_tools, it seems Chromium only does
this on Windows.

Looks like we might need to upgrade the Chromium bots to use 2.6.
Python 2.5 is super old at this point.

Adam


On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Tony Chang <tony at chromium.org> wrote:
> Are you sure?  This output has references
> to System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5.  I also thought
> that's why NRWT was slow on the Leopard bots: python 2.5 doesn't have the
> multiprocess module.
> http://build.chromium.org/p/chromium.webkit/builders/Webkit%20Mac10.5%20%28dbg%29%281%29/builds/4090/steps/webkit_tests/logs/stdio
>
> It may just be a bug that these bots aren't using python2.6.
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, Chromium versions its Python independently from the OS.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
>> > I believe the chromium port always uses 2.6 though, no?
>> >
>> > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Nico Weber <thakis at chromium.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The chromium port still has a bot that runs tests (but doesn't build)
>> >> on
>> >> 10.5.
>> >>
>> >> Nico
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
>> >> > Now that Apple has removed the Leopard build bot (and presumably
>> >> > stopped supporting WebKit on Leopard), all webkit platforms I know of
>> >> > have Python 2.6 or higher.
>> >> >
>> >> > My plan is to remove all of our 2.5 supporting code in the next week,
>> >> > requiring Python 2.6 or later for WebKit.
>> >> >
>> >> > Let me know if this will be an issue for you.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks!
>> >> >
>> >> > -eric
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