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 <light...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 will most likely get you deleted from the server.
I'm curious what the objection of a hosting provider would be to installing a (local) copy of another python version. Why would they care?