Bazaar will require Python 2.6

[Martin Geisler]

Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Martin Geisler <mg at aragost.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> We talked a bit about moving from Python 2.4 at the Copenhagen sprint
>> and decided to stay put for now.
>>
>> The Bazaar project has just decided to move to Python 2.6 for their next
>> stable release:
>>
>>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/71897
>>
>> I think an important point was that none of the enterprise distributions
>> stuck on Python 2.4 ship Bazaar packages. So if people have installed
>> Bazaar from a package, then they'll have gotten it from a third-party,
>> and so they can also install a third-party Python 2.6 package.
>
> A couple of comments:
> - they seem to maintain a stable branch still working on python2.4

Yeah, they maintain several stable branches in parallel, each branch is
maintained for 18 months. After a lot of searching I finally found:

  http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/developers/cycle.html

> - also note that the decision coincides with the end of the support
> for Hardy (this means they don't support anything which doesn't have
> python2.6)

On the server Hardy is supported for two more years, until 2013.

> So I am not sure how much they actually care about entreprise distro
> other than ubuntu LTS.

Yeah, Ubuntu is clearly their main focus, no doubt about that. Also, as
I noted above, it seems that installing from source is not so important
for them, whereas we want people to be able to unpack and install a new
Mercurial on an old server.

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