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I've never heard the distro argument used by any of the python maintainers and I would be surprised if they had. The solution to distros which are bundling thr
by dschobel 16y ago
I've never heard the distro argument used by any of the python maintainers and I would be surprised if they had.
The solution to distros which are bundling three year old software is not to halt your progress for three years, that should be obvious.
- mfukar 16y agoI was mentioning it as a side-effect, the main reason was to give time to alternative Python implementations to reach Python 3.1.
- ubernostrum 16y agoThe solution to distros which are bundling three year old software is not to halt your progress for three years, that should be obvious. Speaking as Django's release manager: Red Hat's continued use and support of ancient 2.x Python versions has been a factor in the schedule we're developing for migration to Python 3.x. We can't simply pull the rug out from under anyone who's using Django on RHEL.
- dschobel 16y agoSeeing RHEL/CentOS keep coming up led me to some googling and the first result for "RHEL python" is http://www.python.org/download/linux/ http://www.python.org/download/linux/ (about as official as it gets) which says The IUS Community Project maintains recent versions of Python for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS. Installations are parallel installed next to stock versions of python therefore don't disrupt the functionality of critical python utilities on the system. Doesn't that solve the issue and keep you from being hamstrung by those distros?
- ubernostrum 16y agoNot quite, because not everyone will install that stuff, or will be able to get approval from their higher-ups to install it (folks who run RHEL tend to be pretty conservative...).