On 9/27/06 6:29 PM, "Carson Gaspar" <carson@taltos.org> wrote:
--On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 11:54 AM -0400 Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:
Then there is the question of what versions we support for Mailman 2.2, which is currently under development. Previously we've said we'll support Python 2.3 but I think we should revisit that decision.
If you drop python 2.3, you drop RHEL4. It doesn't effect me personally, as I don't run mailman on my RHEL4 servers, but I suspect it would make many folks unhappy.
Well, to run Mailman later than 2.1.5 (with backports) (I think it is) in RHEL 4 (or, therefore, CentOS-4), one is looking at building Mailman from source rather than using official packages. If one is capable of doing that, one is also capable of doing an alternative install of a newer Python, and telling one's Mailman to use that.
Unofficial packages would have to take the Python version problem into account.
So while the requirement is a nuisance, it's not a show stopper IMHO.
--John