Redhat 7.1 and Python 2.1

[D-Man]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:00:22PM +0000, Paul Hughett wrote:
| Eric Lee Green <eric at badtux.org> wrote:
| 
| : As for why Red Hat included Python 1.5.2 rather than Python 2.1, it
| : was because Python 1.6.1 and Python 2.1 (with the GPL-compatible
| : licenses) had not been released in time to properly test with RH7.1. I
| : was a beta tester for RH 7.1 and they specifically said, at least on
| : the beta list, they weren't using Python 2.0 because of the licensing
| : issue. Hopefully now that Python 2.1 is out, with a GPL-compatible license,
| : we can move upwards and onwards in the Linux Python world. 
| 
| Python 2.0 is included as package python2 on the 7.1 PowerTools CD,
| which comes with the Workstation edition but not--I believe--with the
| lowest-price edition.

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/
    7.1/en/powertools/i386/RedHat/RPMS/python2-2.0-3.i386.rpm

:-)

Who needs to buy a box?  (other than people with less-than-optimal
network connections)

(I prefer  'apt-get install python2-base'  because I am a Debian user now)
-D