[webkit-dev] Removing Support for Python 2.5

[Eric Seidel]

Tony: I would recommend upgrading to at least 2.7 on those machines.
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.2/

I would love to switch us to require 2.7 but such would currently too
much of a burden on SnowLeopard-based developers.

-eric

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
> 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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