Dec. 1, 2004
8:29 p.m.
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 09:05, Barry Warsaw wrote:
May be we can go forward to requirement of Python 2.4 because CJK codecs are integreted there.
I have no problems requiring Python 2.4 for Mailman 2.2, although I would like to get some feedback from the community before we decide for sure.
Red Hat is currently shipping 2.3 in FC2 and FC3. 2.4 won't show up till FC4 which is at least 6 months out. RHEL3 is still shipping with 2.2. RHEL4, which has not yet shipped will have 2.3.
Python 2.3 is going to be installed version of python on Red Hat systems for a while and 2.2 is also common.
I have a suggestion. My understanding is that python 2.4 is desired because the CJK codecs are part of the official python distribution in 2.4. Up to this point mailman installed its own CJK codecs. The proper course of action in my view would be to continue to ship mailman's private copy of the codecs, add a check to "configure" to test for 2.4, if its available use the python version, if not fallback to the previous private method. Sound like a plan?
John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com>