Res: [qmtest] QMTest plans

[Stefan Seefeld]

Edisson Braga wrote:

> I also took a look on the QMTest source code and I agree with Rodrigo,
> regarding porting QMTest to Python 2.5, including the use of subprocess
> module.
> 
> IMHO, the best would be if you guys make available a new QMTest release
> (2.4?) which is fully compatible with Python 2.3 and 2.4. Afterwards,
> create a new branch for a new QMTest version (3.x?), which will use
> Python 2.5 as base for the development. Although on this new version
> QMTest would loose the backward compatibility with older Python
> versions, there will still be an available working version for Python
> 2.3 and 2.4. This way it's possible to clean up the source code and,
> more important, allow QMTest to be improved with the use of new Python
> features.
> 
> What do you think?

I still fail to see any compelling reason to drop support for python
not as recent as version 2.5. (And there are a lot of distributions that
only contain python 2.3 or 2.4 by default).
We haven't yet discussed any new features that would require a break up
with older python versions. Cleanup in itself, though certainly valuable,
doesn't count.

Regards,
		Stefan

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