1 Apr
2011
1 Apr
'11
7:03 p.m.
Even if their servers won't run ubuntu 11.04+ (or something with the same library paths), their development environments will.
They can also patch the Python releases themselves, or use Ubuntu packages that someone else made for them (they can probably just install the old 2.4 packages just fine).
The Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2 packages in Ubuntu 11.04 already have essentially the same patch that I posted, so folks using Python 2.6 from the operating system will not have a problem. Without this patch in our repository, folks building Python 2.6 from source will have to be aware of it.
So let them use Python 2.6 from Ubuntu. Case closed! cheers Antoine.