On 2017-09-10 05:42, Chris Warrick wrote: > > RHEL’s release process starts at forking a recent Fedora release. It > wouldn’t make much sense for them to undo the Python 3 progress that > happened over the past few years in Fedora — including dnf, an > improved package manager written in Python 3. If the fork happened > today, the base release would be Fedora 26, which includes Python 3.6, > and some install options don’t include Python 2. >
It wouldn't make much sense for Red Hat to undo the Python 3 progress that has been made in the Fedora project, but this is exactly what happened with RHEL 7. That version is based on Fedora 19, which includes Python 3.3 in the base install, but 3.3 is not only missing from the default install of RHEL/CentOS 7, it's not even available in default package repositories. I was rather surprised and annoyed about this, and can't wait until "Python 3 isn't part of the base install of RHEL" to not be a valid complaint/excuse anymore. MMR...
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