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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce testsuite support to run Python tests
- From: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- To: David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat dot com>, Pierre-Marie de Rodat <derodat at adacore dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 12:43:01 -0600
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce testsuite support to run Python tests
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On 07/26/2017 10:48 AM, David Malcolm wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-07-26 at 18:35 +0200, Pierre-Marie de Rodat wrote:
>> On 07/26/2017 06:25 PM, David Malcolm wrote:
>>> str.format was introduced in Python 2.6, so presumably the minimum
>>> python 2 version here is at least 2.6+; for Python 3 I believe it
>>> was
>>> present in Python 3.0 onwards.
>>
>> Hm… Python 2.6 is fairly old: last binary release was ages ago, last
>> source release was in 2013. Do you think it’s worth supporting it?
>
> IIRC RHEL 6 has Python 2.6 as its /usr/bin/python (but Python 2.7 is
> available as a "software collection" add-on).
Given the age of RHEL 6, I wouldn't get too hung up on on supporting it
for this stuff. Hell, it's EOL in just a few short years.
>
> I don't know if gcc as a project would want to support 2.6+ or simply
> 2.7 for Python 2.
If it was trivial, then let's support 2.6. But if it's nontrivial, I'd
support stepping to something more modern.
Jeff