[haiku-development] Re: [webkit-dev] WebKit Planning on Requiring Python 2.7 Soon

  • From: pulkomandy <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:43:54 +0200

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:28:50PM +1200, Jessica Hamilton wrote:
> On 11/09/2014 6:13 PM, "pulkomandy" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> > The WebKit team is about to start requiring Python 2.7 starting next
> > week. We still have only 2.6.9 in our repositories. Are we ready to
> > migrate to 2.7 or should we ask them to delay the switch?
> 
> Shouldn't we be able to provide both versions with package management, and
> even have them both installed?

We can do that for python itself, but it's difficult to have
dependencies built to work with both versions.

I also forgot to mention the x86_64 port of Haiku is already using
Python 2.7, and that seems to work reasonably well.

-- 
Adrien.

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