[PATCH] Install Python 3.4 in Docker

Stephen Finucane stephenfinucane at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 2 06:32:51 AEST 2016


On 30 Aug 10:50, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Stephen Finucane <stephenfinucane at hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On 26 Aug 16:55, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> >> Currently, we tox test against Python 3.4. Python 3.4 is included
> >> with Ubuntu 14.04, which is supported for several years to come,
> >> so we want to keep supporting it.
> >> 
> >> However, Python 3.4 isn't included with Ubuntu 16.04, which is
> >> what the Docker image is based on.
> >> 
> >> We could downgrade the container to 14.04, but then we'd struggle
> >> to get Python 3.5 into the container. Python 3.5 is the most
> >> recent in the Python 3 series, so we should also be supporting it.
> >> 
> >> Add the apt sources for Trusty and pull in Python 3.4 from there.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
> >
> > I need to test this, but it looks good. Just to confirm, the aim is to
> > get both Python 3.4 and 3.5 on the system, correct?
> 
> Yes, that's right. I can tweak the commit message if you like.

No need, I'll do that.

Reviewed-by: Stephen Finucane <stephenfinucane at hotmail.com>

I wonder if it would be worth looking at the 'deadsnake' repo at some
point in the future? Perhaps when Python 3.6 is release?

Stephen


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