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On Sep 27, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Carson Gaspar 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.
I'm not up on the development/release plans of RHEL. When do you
think they might release a version with Python 2.4 support? The same
kind of goes for OS X, which ships with Python 2.3 on Tiger. I have
no idea what Leopard will ship with, but I'd have to hope that it
would be at least 2.4.x if not 2.5.x.
I guess my standard answers would be (In no particular order :)
- It's easy to build an appropriate Python on whatever *nix platform
you've got
- It's easy to build an appropriate Python on whatever *nix platform
- I'm sure there are RPMs available for Python 2.4
- RHEL5 will probably beat Mailman 2.2 :)
I suspect that Mailman won't be the only Python app out there
applying pressure to upgrade to a more modern (read "supported")
version of Python.
- -Barry
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