Re: [Shinken-devel] Pushing minimum Python equirement to 2.5?

[Olivier H. <oli...@gm...>]

Hello,

I agree with pushing minimal version to 2.6. People with RHEL5 can always
install python2.6 if they really want to.
"Even" (ahah troll :p) debian squeeze supports python 2.6 & 2.7.

Maybe we could focus on "good" (let's define good ... ) compatibility with
the "last" 2 majors release of popular distro ( debian, redhat, centos,
suse ... ) ?

Regards

Olivier

2012/7/17 David GUENAULT <dav...@gm...>

> Hum, i don't think it is the responsability of the shinken project to
> maintain compatibility of so old distributions. This is a real handbrake
> for the development of shinken ! packaging castrated versions of shinken is
> not a good solution as it does not expose the full functionalities of the
> project. Shinken evolve quickly and it is one of the main interest of using
> it ! We cannot stop evolution because of old distributions. This is just my
> own point of view. Never forget darwin, evolution is the only way to
> survive.
>
>
> 2012/7/17 Hartmut Goebel <h.g...@cr...>
>
>> Am 16.07.2012 15:59, schrieb Gerhard Lausser:
>> > So if there is a jump to 2.5-syntax, we have a problem with the
>> > CentOS/RedHat 5.x build of OMD. (And i bet there are many, many
>> production
>> > systems with 5.x out there)
>>
>> RHEL 5 will be supported until 2017. If we really want to keep RHEL 5
>> compatibility, we'll not be able to move forward the next 5 years.
>> Python 2.4 will be 13 years old then and will not have been fixed for 9
>> years. And even Python 3 will be 9 years old then.
>>
>> I expect the first Linux distributions switching to Python 3 the next
>> two or three years. This is when it becomes rally hard, still
>> maintaining Python 2.4 compatibility.
>>
>> I doubt, it's a good idea binding the development of an application to
>> the release policy of an distribution. Esp. since it should be easy to
>> prepare Python 2.7 and the few modules required by Shinken even for and
>> old Linux release.
>>
>> > No Shinken in OMD for CentOS/RedHat 5.x which is a very bad idea (it's
>> > already a castrated package because it includes no Shinken UI for these
>> > versions)
>>
>> Yet another reason why OMD should include a recent Python version :-)
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Hartmut Goebel
>>
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