Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Status Cmake Win32 support

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 	• As mentioned in my previous message, the VS solution chops out every 8192nd byte from the command line passed to make-dissector-reg.py.  My patch (make-reg.patch) gets CMake to write out the required source file list to a file and modifies the python script to read in the file.  The python changes *should* be backwards compatible.

...but they aren't:

	Making register.c with python
	../../tools/make-dissector-reg.py:72: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
	  File "../../tools/make-dissector-reg.py", line 72
	    with open(sys.argv[3]) as f:
	            ^
	SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This is on the buildbot that's building the 10.5 version of Wireshark (i.e., the build on that buildbot is broken); the buildbot is running 10.6, and I infer from

  PYTHONPATH=/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages

that it's using Python 2.5.

"Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6" presumably means it's not a reserved keyword in Python 2.5; perhaps that means it's not supported in 2.5, in which case you can't use it in a Python script in the build procedure unless we choose to require Python 2.6, not just Python 2.5 (as we do now).