RHEL6 blocking Python 2.7 and 3.x

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Sep 2 21:37:15 UTC 2015


On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 09:50 +0200, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
> On (02/09/15 09:56), Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 20:04 +0200, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > > 
> > > it is CentOS 5 which uses this older GNUTLS release (1.4.1).
> > > 
> > > Well I do not complain if we are not supporting it any longer but > > > 
> > > then
> > > we should change our WAF checks to exclude it.
> > > 
> > > Matthias
> > 
> > Can you prepare such a patch.  If accepted this may also give us 
> > the
> > excuse to move to Python 2.7 as a minimum as well (presuming that
> > doesn't cause other problems).
> > 
> CentOS 6 has just Python 2.6
> So some users might complain they are not able to build samba on 
> CentOS 6.

This will indeed be a major impediment to our move to Python3.  

Ouch.

Andrew Bartlett

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