Re: Python 2.5 vs the buildfarm

Tom Lane wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>   
>> "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>>     
>>> I really don't understand Peter's objection here.  This thread has
>>> already consumed more person-time than I spent on applying the
>>> back-patch.  
>>>       
>
>   
>> Well I certainly wouldn't expect us to feel obligated to spend much effort
>> making 8.1 work with a new Redhat release, for example. We would just say 8.1
>> is only supported on those systems it was supported on when it was released.
>>     
>
> Well, it would certainly depend on how much effort was involved to make
> it work.  In this case, I drew the line at messing with autoconf ;-) ...
> otherwise I might've tried to fix 7.4 as well.
>
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>   

I think your action has been entirely appropriate.

Just to show you how wrong Peter's objection is - yesterday I found 
myself having to build 7.1 so I could recover some data for a client. So 
we occasionally need to build long, long after the release.

cheers

andrew