What's the status of Python 2.6 support?

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Mon Dec 29 19:55:25 GMT 2008


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Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> Matt Nordhoff wrote:
>>> Errm,
>>> Over the past few months, all known issues with Python 2.6 were fixed,
>>> right? But python2.6 hasn't been added to KNOWN_PYTHONS in the "bzr"
>>> script, so bzr will only use 2.4 or 2.5. Was that an oversight, or is
>>> there some reason not to use 2.6?
>> I'm pretty sure we should just add it to the list of KNOWN_PYTHONS and
>> make sure it starts getting tested properly. That would also include
>> building 2.6 packages on win32. I'm not sure if we want to default to
>> py2.6 for the standalone yet, but we can build independent installers.
>>
>> John
>> =:->
> 
> So...what does that entail? Would you be willing to accept the
> KNOWN_PYTHONS change now, or does it have to wait for testing and
> everything else?

I would just do the KNOWN_PYTHONS change. People have been testing using 2.6

Though it would be really nice if someone would do a full test suite run
 using 2.6 as part of introducing the KNOWN_PYTHONS change.

John
=:->

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