[CF-Devel] Python questions

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Mark Wedel wrote:

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      Todd Mitchell wrote:
     
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      Well 2.1 was what I always am pushing because of Debian. If we stop
     
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      supporting python 2.1 we stop python support in CF for woody - this
     
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      impacts CF servers for the mainstream debian crowd. Although many folks
     
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      use testing or unstable for desktop (including me), I think many folks
     
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      might still use woody for public servers (including me). Sarge uses
     
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      Python 2.3 however so hopefully one day soon this will be resolved.
     
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       Well, it seems there are really two choices:
     
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      a) Support python 2.1, but then have things that need 64 bit values be 
     
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      broken (exp, money, etc).
     
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      b) Support only version 2.2 and newer, which may lose support of older 
     
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      platforms for the python plugin (rest of crossfire would still work 
     
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      fine).
     
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       I think 'b' is the way to go - no reason to try to support older 
     
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      technology software that may not work really well.  Also, if it is 
     
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      important for those still using that older software, they could always 
     
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      install a newer version of python someplace else just for crossfire to 
     
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      use.
     
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       The real problem, of course, is precompiled packages - either you do 
     
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      the precompiled package with python support, which may have issues 
     
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      with debian, or you don't, which means people running the latest 
     
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      version have issues (or you two distributions).
     
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       But I don't even know if anyone is doing precompiled debian packages 
     
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      anyways, so may not be an issue.
     
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     I'd go along with this -  the deb version of CF server in Woody is not 
even close to current.  I just mentioned it as something to keep in mind 
- maybe some sort of howto or notification on how to build Crossfire 
with a alternate python path is in order.  (I believe it is configure -- 
pythonsomething=<path>). Also I would in this case suggest we jump over 
2.2 and make 2.3 (or even 2.4?) the new 'test target' for crossfire 
python.  This will give us a longer period of stability again and there 
are some nice things in there we can benefit from (like universal line 
ending and dictionary iteration in 2.3).
Also I believe that real-time is moving from redhat to debian so this 
issue may be more salient as this goes on.


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