> On 15 Dec 2015, at 08:43, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > >>> But again: Python 2.6 is unsupported by the upstream Python developers. You >>> really should not be using it, since it won't receive security updates (of >>> course, Red Hat and transitively CentOS claim to "support" these packages, >>> but if upstream is refusing patches at this point, it's not clear where that >>> support will come from). >> >> As you can imagine, this boils down to politics. > > I understand that things like this often do, which is exactly why I want to > make it clear that we (speaking in terms of the broader Python community now, > not just Twisted) are trying to push people towards more recent versions just > because they're more fun or more aesthetically pleasant, but because there > are very real risks associated with being on unsupported ancient versions of > things. It pains me not to be supporting a configuration that some users > want, but there is a line where "conservative about change" becomes > "negligent about maintenance" and python 2.6 crossed it a little over two > years ago :-).
There is a solution to this, and Nick Coghlan has mentioned it to me many times -- Software Collections for RHEL and CentOS. Software Collections is RH's answer to "new software" on "stable distributions" -- SCLs operate side-by-side with system packages, so it won't break anything. Since you're a CentOS 6.7 user, the standard SCL should work (it's 6.5+). You can find the Python 2.7 SCL at https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python27/, and CentOS publishes instructions on using them on https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL . This might solve your problem of being restrained to CentOS 6, but Python 2.6 being EOL'd everywhere but it. - Amber
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