increasing the python requirement (was Re: [rfc] upgrade pqm chroot to lucid)

[Martin Pool]

On 6 January 2011 15:54, jbowtie at amathaine.com <jbowtie at amathaine.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> From memory 2.6 has relatively more relevant new features we'd like to
>> use than 2.5 does, so there is an incentive to bump our requirement
>> all the way to 2.6.
>>
>> Before deciding when to go to 3.0 I'd like to take a spike on actually
>> doing the conversion, or getting bzr going under 2to3, so that we have
>> a better measure of how buggy or hard it's going to be.
>
> If you were to go all the way to 2.6 I'd definitely volunteer to start
> running the codebase through 2to3 regularly and contributing patches.
> Being able to explicitly distinguish between bytes and strings is
> probably the hardest part we'll face.

That seems to imply you think it will actually be infeasible or too
hard to run through 2to3 if we keep compatibility with 2.4?

-- 
Martin