Bug 36680

Summary: Codegen secretly requires Python 2.6
Product: Telepathy Reporter: Olli Salli <ollisal>
Component: tp-qtAssignee: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity: trivial    
Priority: low CC: ollisal
Version: git master   
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Description Olli Salli 2011-04-29 08:56:13 UTC 
A quote from Felipe Crochik, who was building TpQt4 for Maemo 5, the SDK for which only has Python 2.5.4:

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In order to build the version 0.5.15 (scratchbox/maemo5/python 2.5.4) one
file (tools/qt4-types-gen.py) had to be changed. Replaced "as" with "," on
the "except BrokenSpecException, e" line:

 Generator(dict(options))()
   except BrokenSpecException, e:
       print >> sys.stderr, 'Your spec is broken, dear developer! %s' % e
       sys.exit(42)

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We should integrate this change upstream and somehow ensure we won't accidentally gain deps on newer Python versions again for no real purpose.
Comment 1 Alexandr Akulich 2016-06-11 06:18:45 UTC 
I think we can keep dependence on python 2.6 those days, eight years after release.
Comment 2 diane 2016-06-20 18:08:39 UTC 
Also the as syntax is the required syntax for python3. people really should be using at least python 2.7...

Diane

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