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

[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.)

Are there OS version usage statistics available for Wireshark?
-- 
Kind regards,
Peter Wu
https://lekensteyn.nl

PS. could someone review changes https://code.wireshark.org/review/7778
and https://code.wireshark.org/review/7779, without these changes the
build fail on systems where Python 3 is the default.

 [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Leopard