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RE: [Xen-devel] python 2.4 and the xl

To: Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] python 2.4 and the xl
From: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:59:35 +0800
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] python 2.4 and the xl
I'm quite poor on Python , so is it possible that you cook a patch for it?  :-$
If needed, I can verify on my python 2.4 environment.

Thanks
--jyh

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gianni Tedesco [mailto:gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 8:03 PM
>To: Jiang, Yunhong
>Cc: Ian Jackson; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] python 2.4 and the xl
>
>On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 06:52 +0100, Jiang, Yunhong wrote:
>> The python/xen/lowlevel/xl/xl.c does not work in my python 2.4
>> environment because the Py_ssize_t is only for python 2.5. I have to
>> add something like "typedef int Py_ssize_t" to make it compilable. Is
>> 2.4 python still supported or xl requires 2.5 python? My environment
>> is RHEL5, maybe a bit out of date, I think :$
>
>If we can support python 2.4 with minimal hassle then why not?
>
>However it would seem to make more sense to typedef that to the specific
>type which is expected in the two places where that is used, since they
>are pointers in both cases. I suspect it's PyInt or something like that?
>
>Please submit a patch :)
>
>Gianni

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