On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 11:43 -0700, John Nagle 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?
Yes, we install Python 2.6 on CentOS and run a production app on it - no problems. rpm -Uvh http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/5/i386/ius-release-1-4.ius.el5.noarch.rpm yum -y install python26 python26-setuptools <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/coils/wiki/ProvisioningCentOS5> -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
