Re: raising pyblosxom requirements

On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 04:43:54AM -0500, will kahn-greene wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm tossing around raising the Python requirement for PyBlosxom from 2.3
> to 2.5.  There are a couple of reasons for this:
> 
> 1. it allows us to use features and fixes available in 2.4 and 2.5
> (subprocess instead of popen2 in comments plugin, ...)
> 
> 2. it reduces the number of Python versions we need to test against
> 
> 
> Python 2.5 is pretty old, so I don't think I'd be raising the bar so
> high that it makes life difficult for people.
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?  Does anyone run PyBlosxom on a
> system with Python 2.3 or 2.4?
> 
> /will

I run it on RHEL5 (CentOS 5) and have been meaning to get it packaged
up for Fedora and EPEL.

RHEL5 includes Python 2.4.3 by default, though EPEL provides 2.6 I
believe.

Any 2.5-only features you definitely plan on using?

Ray

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