16 Dec
2015
16 Dec
'15
2:36 a.m.
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The fact is the Python community at large then needs to convince the distro maintainers accordingly. Telling a customer to update their entire platform for a newer version of Python isn't going to fly a lot of times (and remember, someone of them have support agreements with RH).
The community has. However Redhat has customers that want support for old systems and are willing to pay for it. CentOS is essentially a repackaged unsupported version of Redhat Enterprise Linux. If you want support for packages against an old version of python, you can contact Redhat (as per this[1] post by core python developer and Redhat employee). Tom [1] http://www.curiousefficiency.org/posts/2015/04/stop-supporting-python26.html