Re: [Xen-devel] Minimum python version for xen-4.1.1

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 11:11 +0000, Alex Bligh wrote:
> Does xen-4.1.1 really require python 2.7 (as per Ubuntu packaging) or
> will it actually work on python 2.6? I am trying to backport it to
> an Ubuntu LTS version and would rather not have to bring in Python 2.7
> if possible.

The README says 2.3 or later. I don't think we rely on 2.7 specifically
and we would take patches to fix it for earlier versions as necessary
(although perhaps we would bump the 2.3 to e.g. 2.4 or 2.5 if that
turned out to be easier, depends on the prevalence of 2.4+ in distro
stable releases).

Ian.




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