[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 19:54:46 +0200
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 07:18:07PM +0200, Oliver Tappe wrote:
>
> On 2014-09-11 at 12:28:50 [+0200], Jessica Hamilton
> <jessica.l.hamilton@xxxxxxxxx> 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?
>
> As long as the packages have different names and provides (i.e. python26
> and python), this is possible. Of course, only one of those packages can
> provide the 'python' binary (the other one would have to resort to
> 'python-2.6' or similar).
>
> But in general I'd prefer it if we could restrain ourselves to stick to a
> single version of python 2. If we decide to support two different versions
> of python, it should be 2.x and 3.x.
That would be nice, but there isn't even a working haikuporter recipe
for Python 3, so I think migrating to 2.7 is likely to be faster.
--
Adrien.
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