Junio C Hamano wrote: > Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> writes: > >>Not supporting one of the major Linux distributions isn't ideal >>though, so maybe we should do something about this. I will have a look >>at rewriting the code to not use subprocess. > > Thanks -- I personally feel that it would be best to just let FC > catch up, solving this problem for us, while you spend your time > on other things first. > The problem isn't FC, the problem is RHEL, generally used on machines for which an OS update it's huge deal. > Peter, if you feel strongly about it I'd do 0.99.7.1 removing > the 'requires python >=2.4', but as Fredrik says the only thing > that uses Python 2.4 is his recursive merge, and it is not > something we use without the user explicitly asking for it. We > can consider it as the same status as send-email or archimport > which cannot work without Perl modules necessary for their > operation, so if you can install bypassing requires- check that > would work equally well. My suggestion would be to fork off the recursive merge into a separate binary package which can have the python >= 2.4 requirement (unless Fredrik just fixes it.) -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Sep 20 07:01:19 2005
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