Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Supported Python versions?

[Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter,

2015-03-24 18:17 GMT+01:00 Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 04:58:14PM +0100, Pascal Quantin wrote:
>> 2015-03-22 16:48 GMT+01:00 Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Triggered by a build error due to html2text.py, I have recently started
>> > with adding Python 3 support to various Python scripts[1][2]. The change
>> > to html2text.py[1] was tested with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.4.
>> >
>> > The configure script however checks for Python >= 2.5 which was first
>> > released in 2006 with the last security update in 2011. This version
>> > also lacks support for nice language constructs such as 'with'.
>> > checklicenses.py is already incompatible with this.
>> >
>> > Any objections if this gets bumped to 2.6 or even 2.7? The
>> > dfilter-test.py script already requires 2.7 (or newer).
>> >
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> the OSX 10.5 x86 buildbot still runs Python 2.5, so bumping the minimum
>> Python  version would require updating the buildbot. So it's better to keep
>> compatibility for the scripts used during build steps.
>>
>> Pascal.
>
> According to the ComputerWorld source listed by Wikipedia[1], OS X 10.5
> became unsupported since June 2011. Python 2.5 also does not receive
> security updates anymore. (OS X 10.6 has Python 2.7 which is still
> supported.)
Since we use Python with verified input and only for building
Wireshark the security concerns don't apply here.
Otherwise I think it would be OK to move to newer Python version.

Cheers,
Balint