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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

Wayne,

That makes sense. I run Fedora so I have 3.6 available to me currently. In
this case adding in support for 3.3 isn't insurmountable since it only adds
1 additional elif statement. I am hesitant to suggest bumping the python
version for 5.1.3 (which is what this bug is targeted to), but for 6.0 it
might make sense to bump the version and clean up the code if possible.

-Ian

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:57 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Ian,
>
> I typically use Debian stable (Stretch) as a benchmark for dependency
> versions which has version 3.5.3 of Python3.  Seeing that Debian old
> stable (Jessie) has Python3 version 3.4.2 and Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) is
> 3.5.1, I would think 3.4 would be an acceptable minimum version of
> Python 3 to support.  Right now KiCad requires version 3.3 or greater
> but I'm fine with bumping it to >=3.4 if it saves us a bunch of
> conditional python version code.  There is already enough of that with
> python2/3.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 5/24/19 6:02 AM, Ian McInerney wrote:
> > I am in the process of fixing a bug related to the importing of the
> > plugins (https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1828595), and the root
> > cause is a change that was made between python 2 and 3 in which module
> > contains the reload function.
> >
> > Unfortunately it isn't as simple for the python 3 side of things, since
> > the reload() function has been moved around in both 3.2 and 3.4, so the
> > current solution I have would only support python >3.4 and also python
> > 2. This leads to the question, what is the minimum python version that
> > kicad requires the user to have installed? Do we need to add in the
> > support for versions between 3.0 and 3.4? Doing this seems like it will
> > complicate the code, since we will essentially be left with if blocks to
> > import/call functions based on every conceivable python version.
> >
> > -Ian
> >
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