[CF-Devel] Python questions

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Todd Mitchell wrote:
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      Well by 'test target' I just meant the generally agreed on version that 
     
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      python scripts should be tested out on for inclusion to CVS, not a 
     
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      required version of Python for the server. Local and in-house scripts 
     
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      naturally don't need to worry about this and should be able to use 
     
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      whatever version of python they want/require.   However I think it's a 
     
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      good idea for the 'official' scripts to be tested against an agreed on 
     
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      version.  As an example I currently test against 2.1 for crossfire and 
     
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      can't say that the player log or slotmachines would work in 2.0 or 1.5 
     
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      or whatever but they will very likely work with 2.2 or 2.3, however when 
     
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      python scripts submitted for Guild system were tested on 2.3 there were 
     
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      cases of them not working on metalforge.  Basically I was just looking 
     
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      for an agreement something like the 'rules' we use for maps.  This will 
     
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      make it easier when people have problems as well - you have a version 
     
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      number to give them.  I would rather test scripts against 2.3 than 2.2 
     
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      as it is more current (so longer shelf-life)  has some big improvements 
     
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      and I think more likely to be installed on someone's system than 2.2.
     
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      I also didn't mean to imply that a check needs to be done on the server 
     
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      for a specific python version requirement, I just meant putting a nice 
     
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      notice in the INSTALL doc on how to use the configure script to build 
     
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      against a specific installation of python if your default system python 
     
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      does not work or if you want to keep it seperate.
     
     
  Ah ok.

  That makes more sense.

  For testers of scripts, it probably really comes down to 'don't use a version 
later than x.y'.  If everyone tests against 2.3 or earlier, it makes it fairly 
safe to say that if you have pythong 2.3 or later, you should be good (I'm 
presuming python is not going to make incompatible changes).

  However, if we put in such a testing scheme, which IMO we should, it should 
also be clearly spelled out in the docs.  Eg, something like 'The python plugin 
scripts have been tested against version 2.3 or python.  If you plan to use the 
python plugin scripts, we recommend you have at least this version.  Using older 
version may work, but is not supported'.


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