Re: [Discuss OpenCPI] Python 3.4 Requirement

From: Nathan Knowles <nathan.knowles_at_cnftech.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 20 21:49:05 +0000

Hi Brian,

That decision was made in the context of supporting CentOS 7/6 without considering other more up-to-date OS's (Ubuntu for example). In hindsight it was a poor decision made by me and will be addressed in v1.7.0. Your workaround is good and is what I would suggest to others using a newer version of Python 3.

Since we still support CentOS 6 and it is limited to Python3.4 (unless python is installed not using yum, which is not supported), our python scripts will not use newer features added after 3.4 until we drop support for CentOS 6. CentOS 6 is EOL/EOS this year in November. We plan to add support for CentOS 8 and drop support for CentOS 6 before that time.

Sorry for the hassle.

-Nathan

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss <discuss-bounces_at_lists.opencpi.org> On Behalf Of Brian Padalino
Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2020 1:27 PM
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Subject: [Discuss OpenCPI] Python 3.4 Requirement

I noticed in v1.6.0 of OpenCPI, all the Python scripts seem to call out, explicitly, python3.4 - is there a reason for explicitly using python3.4 versus just python3?

The RCC environment I'm working in doesn't have python3.4, so I just made a symlink to python3 and let the scripts run.

I'm curious if anyone with more information knows if this is feasible and why it was chosen to pin against python3.4 instead of just python3?

Thanks,
Brian


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