[Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-Users] OS X & Mailman & Python

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Sep 27, 2006, at 10:19 PM, Carson Gaspar wrote:

> --On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:09 PM -0400 Barry Warsaw
> <barry at python.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> RHEL5 is in beta. It currently has python-2.4.3 (humorously, the  
> RPM is
> still called python-2.4.3-14.fc6). As I said, _I_ don't care about  
> mailman
> on RHEL4 (I run it on Solaris x86 as I like servers that don't crash),

:)  Yeah, unless someone wants to donate an Xserve, I'll probably  
keep my production Gentoo x86 box around for a while longer.  I'm  
still running my own lists and websites on that machine, but I won't  
do development on it.

> I
> just wanted to raise the issue. Feel free to say "legacy OS, legacy
> mailman". But keeping 2.3 support for future 2.1.x security/bugfix  
> releases
> would be a good idea.

Oh yes, sorry I wasn't clear.  We'll definitely continue to support  
Python 2.3 for Mailman 2.1.x.  We'll drop Python 2.3 for Mailman  
2.2.  I'll write this up in the wiki.

- -Barry

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