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When you can't 'yum upgrade python' because it breaks half of your system, the threshold for hating drops really fast. What kind of idiots tied their system to
by crististm 12y ago
When you can't 'yum upgrade python' because it breaks half of your system, the threshold for hating drops really fast.
What kind of idiots tied their system to Python 2.4?
- ciupicri 12y agoThe same "idiots" who guarantee API (version) stability for many, many years.
- crististm 12y agoI won't debate this more than necessary. Nobody stops you for shipping system tools with Python 2.2 if that is what you want. But don't step on my toes and tell me that I can't install 2.6 and set it as the default one. If you do that you give me a license to call you names.
- ciupicri 12y agoPython 2.6 is available in EPEL5 [1]. It runs in parallel, so the default remains the same, but it's better than nothing. [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python26#Available_Packages_for_EPEL5 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python26#Available_Packages_fo...
- noselasd 12y agoThe people that developed/administered stuff when Python 2.4 was brand new.
- crististm 12y agoYou missed my point. The stupidity is not in using a particular version of a software you have at a time. But in the limitations you get when you can't upgrade or install another default version without breaking the system. Of course you know how easy it is to make your scrips use python2.4. Just make the shebang #!/usr/bin/python24 instead of #!/usr/bin/python. Then you can install another default version and if you keep the old version around you don't break anything. Since other distributions are doing a pretty decent job at it (see gentoo), they don't have any excuse not to do it right.