Re: External Deps: Minimal Python dependency

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:19:24PM +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote:
> Olav Vitters schrieb:
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 05:56:27PM +0200, Sebastian Pölsterl wrote:
>>> As mentioned in [1] sqlite is a blessed external dependency now. I want  
>>> to use sqlite for Deskbar-Applet, too. Because, Python 2.5 has a  
>>> built-in sqlite module I suggest increasing the minimal version to 2.5  
>>> from currently 2.4.3 . Of course, Python 2.5 has more benefits [2].
>>
>> What distributions have Python 2.5 and what has changed since the last
>> time this came up? I know RHEL5 (buildbot) has 2.4 and it is not just a
>> matter of building Python within jhbuild (breaks badly with x86_64).
>>
> I wasn't around when this came up last time. Could you point me to the 
> thread?

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-March/msg00110.html

Just read it again. The main reason for not using 2.5 at that time was
to avoid having a high dependency.

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Regards,
Olav