[yocto] Bitbake requires Python 2.7.3

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

Yep - this is on my plate to document.  

Scott

>-----Original Message-----
>From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton
>Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 2:40 AM
>To: Chris Tapp
>Cc: yocto at yoctoproject.org
>Subject: Re: [yocto] Bitbake requires Python 2.7.3
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>On Friday 28 June 2013 09:55:42 Chris Tapp wrote:
>> I'm experimenting with meta-fsl-arm and I need to use 'master' for
>some of
>> the latest updates. However, when I build I get told that "Bitbake
>requires
>> Python 2.7.3".
>>
>> My development system is Ubuntu 11.10, which only has 2.7.2 (and is
>out of
>> support, so no updates!) and the "latest" "Quick Start" manual simply
>says
>> that 2.7 is required.
>>
>> Is 2.7.3 now a hard requirement (in which case the documentation could
>do
>> with a minor change), or is the version test being too specific?
>
>It is now a requirement, yes (as are git >= 1.7.5 and tar >= 1.24). As I
>understand it a documentation update is queued to cover this.
>
>FWIW, for older hosts where installing these tools in the normal fashion
>is
>difficult or impractical, there is now buildtools-tarball (which
>replaces and
>extends the old external-python-tarball). This builds on the relocatable
>SDK
>installer to provide suitable versions of python, git, tar and other
>tools
>required on the build host. I believe the plan is to offer this for
>download so
>that people can get started immediately (and of course point to this in
>the
>documentation).
>
>Cheers,
>Paul
>
>--
>
>Paul Eggleton
>Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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