Redhat 7.3 skipjack Beta2- why still python 1.5x ?

[Matthew Miller]

Anthony_Barker <anthony_barker at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Python 2.2x is stable why does redhat still insist on releasing 1.5x?
>All other distributions are now on 2.x.
>It seems from the Redhat's skipjack beta 2 that it will only ship the
>older version of python(1.5.2).

This is a good indication that the next release will indeed be 7.3, not 8.0.
(Note that the beta version is 7.2.9x, so the next version isn't
*necessarily* 7.3). Red Hat uses major version number changes to indicate
that they've broken compatiblity in some way (it's not just a marketing
thing like it is for some other complanies). Going to python 2 would break
stuff, so it has to wait. (On the other hand, there *is* the "python2"
package.)

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