[PATCH] Use best available python version

[Martin Pool]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 16:57 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 30 May 2005 16:10, Lalo Martins wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 14:09 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On my Debian box I have Python 2.4, but Python 2.3 is the default.
> > > Currently bzr settles for Python 2.3, this patch makes it use 2.4 in
> > > preference if it's there.
> >
> > er, why?
> 
> Well mainly because I grabbed the latest bzr and it was broken for 2.3.
> 
> But generally, it just seems to make sense, the 2.4 compiler might be faster, 
> have fewer bugs etc. The 2.4 standard libraries presumably have bug fixes and 
> enhancements too, so why not use them?

2.4 is indeed much faster.

But then why wouldn't a distribution which has both 2.3 and 2.4 make 2.4
the default?  Perhaps they don't trust 2.4?  I think early debian 2.4
pythons didn't work well.

-- 
Martin