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 <fordhai...@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 <da...@druid.net> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:43:29 -0700 >> John Nagle <na...@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 <da...@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 > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
