Re: [Xen-devel] Python version

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Whoops! I use Python 2.3 for most testing, so these backward
> > incompatibilities tend to creep in.  Python earlier than 2.2 we don't
> > care about, but 2.2 is used by a lot of distros.  Since we certainly
> > want to support Python 2.2 we'll need an alternative to tempfile. I'll
> > look into this.
> 
> Great - I'm glad 2.2 is to be maintained since it should avoid a whole
> lot of bother.  However I didn't want to suggest dropping mkdtemp since
> I read that it's more secure than previous methods like mktemp, which is
> now deprecated:
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/lib/module-tempfile.html
> 
> Perhaps somebody who knows Python better than me would be able to work
> around this without having force such compromises into Xen?

I checked in a fix yesterday --- if the installer sees Python <2.3 it
installs a private copy of the Python 2.3 tempfile module.

I also fixed the --home= vs. root= problem.

 -- Keir


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