Re: [web2py] Re: broken support for python 2.4

2011-02-20 Thread LightDot
I can't talk about providers in general, but I do run a small hosting company. This is all from our experience, which might or might not be representative. In shared hosting world, we really need to keep things locked down as much as possible. It's a jungle out there. There is really no sane wa

Re: [web2py] Re: broken support for python 2.4

2011-02-20 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Feb 20, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > The local install may require virtualenv or gcc which may not be > available and require root permission. It may not be possible, I suppose, but that's a different matter than the host forbidding it. > > On Feb 20, 10:32 am, Jonathan L

[web2py] Re: broken support for python 2.4

2011-02-20 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
The local install may require virtualenv or gcc which may not be available and require root permission. On Feb 20, 10:32 am, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > > > > I also have made this case but when it was brought up for discussion > > NOBODY sp

Re: [web2py] Re: broken support for python 2.4

2011-02-20 Thread Jonathan Lundell
On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > I also have made this case but when it was brought up for discussion > NOBODY spoke in favor of keeping 2.4 compatibility. > > Is yours a general statement or is 2.4 critical for you specifically? > > On Feb 20, 6:55 am, LightDot wrote:

[web2py] Re: broken support for python 2.4

2011-02-20 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
I also have made this case but when it was brought up for discussion NOBODY spoke in favor of keeping 2.4 compatibility. Is yours a general statement or is 2.4 critical for you specifically? On Feb 20, 6:55 am, LightDot wrote: > There is a bunch of shared hosting providers that still use RHEL/Ce

[web2py] Re: broken support for python 2.4

2011-02-20 Thread LightDot
There is a bunch of shared hosting providers that still use RHEL/CentOS 5 and have not upgraded python nor they wish to - that's the point of having RHEL/CentOS. You don't manually upgrade or add things. And on most shared hosting providers you can't install your own version of python. Trying w

[web2py] Re: broken support for python 2.4

2011-02-20 Thread cjrh
On Feb 20, 6:18 am, Sven1011 wrote: > But I wanted to run the framework on centos 5, hence I stuck with 2.4. If GCC is available, you can build your own version of Python and install into ~/local. This slice has info for doing that, and installing other dependencies: http://web2pyslices.com/mai

[web2py] Re: broken support for python 2.4

2011-02-19 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Thank you. This fix will make it in 1.92.2 since we 1.92.* should support 2.4, but 1.93.* will no longer run on 2.4. We had a thread about it and not one person spoke in favor of supporting 2.4. On Feb 19, 10:18 pm, Sven1011 wrote: > I have downloaded the latest version of web2py and found that s