Redhat 7.1 and Python 2.1

[Jari Oksanen]

Paul Boddie wrote:
> 
> C.L (no at spam.org) wrote:

> > - Why doesn't Redhat ship with Python 2.1?  The 1.5.2 it ships with is a
> > little dated isn't it?
> 
> Red Hat may be on their high horse about the supposed GPL
> incompatibility of Python, or it might just mean that they need to
> modify some of their system administration programs for 2.x and
> haven't gotten around to it yet.
> 
I guess it is the latter reason: they are very heavy Python users in Red
Hat, starting from the RH installer (anaconda) to many adminstration
tools. Obviously these are in Python 1.5.2.
-- 
Jari Oksanen -- Oulu, Finland