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[Pedro Manuel Baeza Romero <pedro.baeza@xxxxxxxxx>]

You are right, Raphael, but first effort must come from OpenERP itself,
because I think up to now, OpenERP base doesn't work with Python 3, doesn't
it? Next LTS release of Ubuntu may include by default only Python 3 [1], so
maybe it could be a push forward to improve this compatibility.

Regards.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3


2014-02-24 19:36 GMT+01:00 Raphael Valyi <rvalyi@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hello,
>
> I have no strong opinion on that this, but still I share mine: I would say
> once we are able to ensure we can follow current Python releases (3.x),
> then we can afford the luxury to look backward to try no breaking older
> Python versions.
> As we are unable to catch up with the Python 3.x line, which isn't exactly
> the bleeding edge either as it's 5 years old already, I would say we should
> focus our efforts to be able to make that move before spending effort on
> compatibility with older versions. Dropping Python 2.6 support and ensuring
> compat with latest 2.7 is actually making efforts to support 3.x if you
> understand properly latest 2.7 releases policies.
>
> My 0.02 R$
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> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Ferdinand Gassauer <office@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>  On 2014-02-24 20:00, Daniel Reis wrote:
>>
>> I think in general the code should be 2.6 compatible for.
>> For example: in September 2013 the available virtual debian image came
>> with python 2.6
>>
>> camptocamp for example uses a specially compiled python version for the
>> OpenERP server to avoid python conflicts with the distributed python
>> version.
>> with this setup strategy one is on the save side.
>>
>> just my 2¢
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In a merge proposal for 7.0. came up the question of what Python versions
>> should the code be compatible with.
>>
>> In particular, a dictionay comprehension is used the, available in Python
>> 2.7 but not compatible with Python 2.6.
>> For reference, the MP is:
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~dreis-pt/project-service/7.0-issue_task-dr/+merge/195985
>>
>> So, the question here is:
>> Regarding OCA reviewed modules, should the code targeting OpenERP >= 7.0
>> be made to keep Python 2.6 compatibility?
>>
>> Regards
>>  Daniel Reis
>>
>>
>>
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