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 "cPanel" and
"yum" 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
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