[Dev] Build update questionnaire

[John Anderson]

There are a bunch of exciting new features in 2.4 that I'd probably use, 
e.g. sets, generator expressions, reversed and a bunch of bug fixes. So 
I'd vote for switching over.

John


Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> Python 2.4 was released recently. Andi says that an update in our Python
> version would be required to fix a memory leak. Andi has also done most
> of the work required to switch to Python 2.4 from build perspective, but
> we have not done comprehensive testing of Chandler with Python 2.4 on
> all platforms. Does anyone else require Python 2.4, or desperately want
> to use Python 2.4 features?
>
> gcj 3.4.2 or newer would be required to fix problems with PyLucene.
> Currently we are using 3.4.1 on Windows and Mac, and 3.4.0 on Fedora
> Core 2. AFAIK 3.4.0 is the only supported version on FC2 (i.e.,
> available via up2date/red carpet). Debian (unstable) has gcj 3.4.3
> available. I don't know about other Linux distributions. Are there
> objections to making gcj 3.4.2(?) the minimum requirement and providing
> prebuilt gcj binaries for FC2 (like we do for Windows and Mac)?
>
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