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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Supported Python versions?

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:47:09 -0700
On Mar 24, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:58:14PM +0100, Pascal Quantin wrote:
>> 2015-03-22 16:48 GMT+01:00 Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Triggered by a build error due to html2text.py, I have recently started
>>> with adding Python 3 support to various Python scripts[1][2]. The change
>>> to html2text.py[1] was tested with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.4.
>>> 
>>> The configure script however checks for Python >= 2.5 which was first
>>> released in 2006 with the last security update in 2011. This version
>>> also lacks support for nice language constructs such as 'with'.
>>> checklicenses.py is already incompatible with this.
>>> 
>>> Any objections if this gets bumped to 2.6 or even 2.7? The
>>> dfilter-test.py script already requires 2.7 (or newer).
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> the OSX 10.5 x86 buildbot still runs Python 2.5, so bumping the minimum
>> Python  version would require updating the buildbot. So it's better to keep
>> compatibility for the scripts used during build steps.
>> 
>> Pascal.
> 
> According to the ComputerWorld source listed by Wikipedia[1], OS X 10.5
> became unsupported since June 2011. Python 2.5 also does not receive
> security updates anymore. (OS X 10.6 has Python 2.7 which is still
> supported.)

The OS X x86 buildbot is running 10.6 (and building against the 10.5 SDK and building with a "minimum deployment version" of 10.5).

So the question is whether we care about users trying to build Wireshark on a 10.5 system.  macosx-setup.sh doesn't work on 10.5, when last I looked at it, so it's a bit harder to set up building on 10.5.