Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:56 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I notice that we now have four buildfarm members failing in the 8.1
> branch, with symptoms indicating that they are running python 2.5,
> which pre-8.2 plpython has known incompatibilities with.  I think
> it's high time we back-patched those compatibility fixes ... they've
> been in the field long enough in 8.2 and 8.3 that the argument that they
> pose a breakage risk seems pretty weak.  Comments?

Considering the number of users who will be running Python 2.5 in the
next six months (Debian/Ubuntu) that will still be running 8.1 (anyone
that doesn't have a need to go past 8.1), I vote +1.


Joshua D. Drake

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