Re: [PATCH v2] INSTALL: git-p4 doesn't support Python 3

John Keeping [off-list ref] writes:

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:54:52AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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John Keeping [off-list ref] writes:

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git-p4 supports Python 2.6 and later versions of Python 2.  Since Python
2.8 will never exist [1], it is most concise to just list the supported
versions.

Thanks; Eric's patch recently updated git-p4.py to require 2.4 I
think. Shouldn't it also be updated?

I haven't done a thorough audit to check what the actual minimum
supported version is, this is just the minimal change to say "not
Python 3".

Personally, I'm not sure of the value of having version checks at the
top of the Python scripts, I would rather set a project-wide minimum
supported version (as in my recent CodingGuidelines patch) and check it
once in the Makefile.

OK; I'll leave that for later a day (Cc'ed Eric but stakeholders of
other Python scripts may want to express their opinions), and will
apply this patch as is.

If we end up deciding to rip out the "prerequisite per file", that
will be a tree-wide change that is independent from your patch we
are discussing in this thread.  If we end up not doing that, then we
would instead be updating git-p4.py to set a higher floor to the
prerequiste but that can come as a separate patch.

Thanks.