Trond Eivind Glomsrød [teg@redhat.com] wrote: > > Python 1.5.2 is what's being used in the distribution, python2 is > there for people to play with/develop for the future with. Note that > all support modules (database modules, newt, etc) only are shipped for > 1.5.2 > > In the future, python 1.5.2 will be obsoleted and python will be > updated to whatever is current/stable at the time. > Why not just admit anaconda (some most "custom" pieces) requires the historic version and there're some problems with porting... > > When we do another major series, python will be upgraded. We >couldn't > upgrade for eg. 7.2 and the current beta as they are intended to >stay > binary compatible (including python modules) with python 1.5.2 as > shipped in RHL 7. We don't want to break binary compatiblity within >a > series. It's non issue in the "outside" python world: > 2.1 modules are vastly superior and in some cases required. I just would like not to be forced to recomplie gnome-python packages on every RH system I work on ;-). Cheers, -- Michal Kurowski <michal@orfeus.bioinfo.pl>
