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[Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Jonathan Lange<jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> On Aug 2, 2009, at 6:48 AM, Andrea Corbellini wrote:
>>
>>> I'd be happy to help you fixing the compatibility with python 2.5 (and,
>>> why not, 2.6).
>>>
>>> I would be extremely grateful if you open some bug tasks for specific
>>> issues, so that I can fix them in an easy way.
>>
>> There were several sessions at UDS where we discussed Karmic Python support
>> in general and which version of Python to target for Launchpad in
>> particular.  The decision was made to target Python 2.6.  IIRC, Karmic will
>> not include Python 2.5 but only 2.6 and there are now back ported packages
>> of 2.6 for Hardy (the last LTS release).
>>
>> The take away is that we want Launchpad to run on Python 2.6, and Gary and
>> his team have been doing a lot of work to get us there.  If we need to get
>> Launchpad running on 2.5 as a stepping stone, so be it, but we should
>> eventually end up on Python 2.6.
>
> That's great to hear. I still reckon it'd be good to have specific
> bugs for the Python upgrade, or at least a wiki page. That way, some
> of the work might get done by magic :)

A separate branch and buildbot job could help too if migration is
going to be a lengthy process.

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