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[John Arbash Meinel]

Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
>>> Well, the idea is that bzr is new and moving quickly today. The
>>> assumption is that people willing to install version 0.something of a
>>> piece of software will have no problem in installing a relatively
>>> recent version of Python. OTOH, when bzr reaches a stable version, it
>>> should have only very common dependancies, and allow people to update
>>> without upgrading their system completely. 2.4 is a reasonable choice
>>> to me (it's in all stable GNU/Linux distros I know).
> 
> If the question is GNU/Linux (or UNIX-flavor) systems, you can run bzr
> without having the default system python be the one that bzr invokes.
> I've run into problems where people are using one rather notable and
> stable distro: RHEL4, which is python 2.3.4 and cannot be reasonably
> upgraded because python is wired into so much of the sysadmin stuff.
> But it works fine to use a separate python for bzr.

And as long as python2.4 is in your path, bzr will actually respawn
itself to find it. Though I think that check now needs to be updated to
look for python2.5 as well as python2.4.

John
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