On 09/10/2017 03:25 AM, Leam Hall wrote: > From a non-rpm perspective Python 3.6.2 compiles nicely on CentOS 6. > Once compiled it seems easy to use pip3 to install stuff without > trampling on the OS's Python 2 install.
In the last place I worked, our servers usually did not have compilers installed (per policy), and installing from a non-RPM source was strongly discouraged. The reason for this is security and configuration management. We allowed certain repositories, such as EPEL. And for custom software we'd build our own RPMs for distribution to the servers. Looking forward, snap or flatpak may well come into play in the next version of RHEL. Also deploying apps in docker images also is becoming standard in the enterprise. All of these things make it much easier to run a newer version of Python to support an application or server process, in a manage-able way. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
