[Mailman-Developers] Python-2.2 disaster

[Dan Wilder]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 02:07:15AM -0800, James J. Besemer wrote:
> 
> Carson Gaspar wrote:
> 
> > Can one of the Python gurus here tell me if I just missed an obvious
> > "correct" way to fix this, or if this is really a broken build process?
> 
> Dunno.  [Real helpful, I know.]
> 
> But FWIW I'm running 2.0.8 and despite the documentation I couldn't get
> things to install or run properly except with Python 1.5.  Doc says 1.5 or
> better so I figured 2.1 was fair game but couldn't get it to work.
> 
> I figured doc was wrong and was ... satisfied ... when it worked with 1.5.
> 
> FWIW, I think 1.5 Python and 2.0.8 Mailman are standard in 7.2 Linux.
> 

Debian 3.0 gives you an option.  Or you can install both versions of
python under different names.

>From this I get the feeling that many things which worked under Python
1.5 do not work under 2.1 or 2.2.

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