[Telepathy-commits] [telepathy-gabble/master] Add a comment explaining why we look for an *old* version of Python by preference

[Simon McVittie]

20080506143558-53eee-ddb74fe4f4344c80e11419130e011c730f05579e.gz
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 configure.ac |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d90d458..8b3d2df 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ AC_CHECK_PROGS([XSLTPROC], [xsltproc])
 if test -z "$XSLTPROC"; then
   AC_MSG_ERROR([xsltproc (from the libxslt source package) is required])
 fi
+# This is for the code generation, not for the tests - any version of Python
+# >= 2.3 with the standard library will do. We prefer older versions,
+# to ensure that when we claim that 2.3 is sufficient we are telling the truth.
 PYTHON=
 AC_CHECK_PROGS([PYTHON], [python2.3 python2.4 python2.5 python])
 if test -z "$PYTHON"; then
-- 
1.5.6.3