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From: John Nagle on 29 May 2010 16:22 Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > On May 29, 2010, at 2:58 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > >> John Nagle <nagle(a)animats.com> writes: >>> The major Red Hat based Linux distros are still shipping with Python >>> 2.4. >> >> Fedora 12 ships with Python 2.6, I think. > > Fedora has been shipping with Python 2.6 since F11 release in June of > 2009, and Python > 2.4 since F7 released in May 2007. > > http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora The "enterprise ready" versions are much further behind. http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=centos CentOS 5.5 (May 2010) - Python: 2.4.3 http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhat RHEL 5.5 (March 2010) - Python 2.4.3 RHEL 6-Beta - Python 2.6.2 However, if 2.6.2 is going into RHEL, the others will follow, and that's probably the production Python on servers for the next few years. John Nagle
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain on 29 May 2010 18:55 On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:43:29 -0700 John Nagle <nagle(a)animats.com> wrote: > The major Red Hat based Linux distros are still shipping with Python 2.4. > > Is anybody trying to do something about this? Other than not running Linux on our hosting server? My ISP (http://www.Vex.Net) runs FreeBSD. Linux is for the desktop. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy(a)druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner.
From: Benjamin Kaplan on 30 May 2010 00:15 And since they're "using legacy stuff that works" from 3 years ago (no one upgrades major versions of software in a minor release- hence Win XP SP3 still coming with IE 6), it's no wonder that they're still on 2.4. On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Someone Something <fordhaivat(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Redhat as always believed in (sorry if this offends anyone): "Use legacy > stuff that works, we don't really give a flying hoot if the rest of the > world has moved on" > > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:55 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy(a)druid.net> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:43:29 -0700 >> John Nagle <nagle(a)animats.com> wrote: >> > The major Red Hat based Linux distros are still shipping with Python >> > 2.4. >> > >> > Is anybody trying to do something about this? >> >> Other than not running Linux on our hosting server? My ISP >> (http://www.Vex.Net) runs FreeBSD. Linux is for the desktop. >> >> -- >> D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy(a)druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves >> http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on >> +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > >
From: Jason D on 31 May 2010 07:13 > The major Red Hat based Linux distros are still shipping with >Python 2.4. >As a result, almost all hosting providers are running obsolete >versions of >Python. > > The big problem seems to be that &quot;cPanel&quot; and >&quot;yum&quot; still use older versions >of Python, and those programs are more important to distro builders >than Python >itself. > > Is anybody trying to do something about this? > > John Nagle I am not sure of Fedora, CentOs 5.x ships with Python 2.5 . The version of python depends a lot on everything else that is packed into the system and uses python. e.g. GUI based tools, system scripts etc. There is however never been an issue to locate different version of python in your system as you deem fit without problems. So I dont understand why your concern. regards Jason ---------------------------- posted via Grepler.com -- poster is authenticated.
From: Philip Semanchuk on 31 May 2010 09:53
On May 31, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Jason D wrote: >> The major Red Hat based Linux distros are still shipping with >> Python 2.4. >> As a result, almost all hosting providers are running obsolete >> versions of >> Python. >> >> The big problem seems to be that &quot;cPanel&quot; and >> &quot;yum&quot; still use older versions >> of Python, and those programs are more important to distro builders >> than Python >> itself. >> >> Is anybody trying to do something about this? >> >> John Nagle > > I am not sure of Fedora, CentOs 5.x ships with Python 2.5 . The > version of python depends a lot on everything else that is packed > into the system and uses python. e.g. GUI based tools, system > scripts etc. Hi Jason, CentOS is based on RHEL SRPMs. How could it ship a more advanced version of Python than RHEL? I have CentOS 5.4 installed, and it only offers Python 2.4.3. And distrowatch.org backs this up -- the latest Python available for Centos 5.x is 2.4: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=centos Did you perhaps install Python 2.5 on your own by compiling the source tarball? bye Philip |