On Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 11:13:33 AM UTC+1, Kiran Kedlaya wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at 4:05:51 AM UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 10:49:44 PM UTC, John H Palmieri wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at 3:24:13 PM UTC-7, David Roe wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dim...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> we now decompress tarfiles with python >>>>> >>>>> https://docs.python.org/2/library/tarfile.html >>>>> >>>>> and all the features of it are only in Python 2.7. Hmm... >>>>> >>>> >>>> This seems like a bad idea; there are lots of systems that won't have >>>> Python 2.7. >>>> David >>>> >>> >>> Python 2.7 was released 5 years ago. >>> >> >> moreover, 2.6 is unsupported since Oct 2013. It's really bad idea to >> still use it, >> as there are security problems which are no longer fixed by the upstream. >> > > Be that as it may, apparently my work server is running CentOS 6.7, and > the supported version of Python in that distro is 2.6.6. (That being said, > my sysadmin installed a newer Python locally, which solves my immediate > problem.) >
https://www.centos.org/download/ only lists version 6.7 among Older Versions Legacy versions of CentOS are no longer supported. For historical purposes, CentOS keeps an archive of older versions. If you’re absolutely sure you need an older version then click here » <http://wiki.centos.org/Download> On the other hand, 6.7 does have EoL Nov 2020. I presume RH backports whatever is needed from Python, etc, to keep it running. On the other hand they definitely provide Python 2.7 packages, as well, see http://vault.centos.org/6.7/sclo/Source/rh/python27/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
