buidrpm --withpython embeds 2.7.10. Should it be bumped?

[Augie Fackler]

> On Feb 12, 2018, at 16:18, muxator via Mercurial-devel <mercurial-devel at mercurial-scm.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when building for older platforms (centos5, centos6) via our Makefile, we embed a custom version of python 2.7 in the rpm ("buildrpm --withpython").
> At the moment, this version is "2.7.10" (which is from 2015):
> 
>   $ grep -rin "2\.7\.10"
>   contrib/Makefile.python:1:PYTHONVER=2.7.10
>   contrib/buildrpm:23:        PYTHONVER=2.7.10
> 
> Does anyone know if we absolutely need that version?
> 
> If this is simply an overlook, I would bump it to python 2.7.14 (latest version as of today), and take some time to test the build on centos5 and centos6, then submit a small patch.
> 
> Any thoughts?

Make it so. 2.7.14 should be great.

Thanks!
Augie

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