Changeset 59798 in vbox for trunk/doc/manual/en_US/SDKRef.xml

Timestamp:

Feb 24, 2016 2:35:47 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

re-applied the Python 3 changes which were backed out in r105674 sans the changes in .cpp

File:

• trunk/doc/manual/en_US/SDKRef.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

trunk/doc/manual/en_US/SDKRef.xml

@@ -781 +781 @@
         <xref linkend="glue-python"/>.</para>
 
+        <para>The minimum supported Python version is 2.6.</para>
+
         <para>As indicated in <xref linkend="webservice-or-com"/>, the
         COM/XPCOM API gives better performance without the SOAP overhead, and
@@ -788 +790 @@
         platform<footnote>
             <para>On On Mac OS X only the Python versions bundled with the OS
-            are officially supported. This means Python 2.3 for 10.4, Python
-            2.5 for 10.5 and Python 2.5 and 2.6 for 10.6.</para>
+            are officially supported. This means 2.6 and 2.7 for 10.8 and later.</para>
           </footnote>). On Windows, you can use the Main API from Python if the
           Win32 extensions package for Python<footnote>
             <para>See <ulink
             url="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018</ulink>.</para>
-          </footnote> is installed. Version of Python Win32 extensions earlier
+          </footnote> is installed. Versions of Python Win32 extensions earlier
           than 2.16 are known to have bugs, leading to issues with VirtualBox
-          Python bindings, and also some early builds of Python 2.5 for Windows
-          have issues with reporting platform name on some Windows versions, so
-          please make sure to use latest available Python and Win32
-          extensions.</para>
+          Python bindings, so please make sure to use latest available Python
+          and Win32 extensions.</para>
 
         <para>The VirtualBox OOWS for Python relies on the Python ZSI SOAP
@@ -1497 +1496 @@
         the glue layer if you want to use a different Python
         installation.</para>
+
+        <para>The minimum supported Python version is 2.6.</para>
 
         <para>In this layer, the class