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 <jlund...@pobox.com> 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 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?
