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[norseman]

Emile van Sebille wrote:
> On 5/18/2009 1:27 PM Jive Dadson said...
>>
>> I love Python, but the update regimen is very frustrating.  It's a 
>> misery to me why every major release requires new versions of so much 
>> application stuff.  No other software that I use is like that.  When I 
>> upgrade Windoze, I do not have to get new matching versions of all my 
>> editors, browsers, and whatnot.  But Python makes me do that, and 
>> that's why I am stuck on release 2.4.  Even the pure Python stuff 
>> needs to be copied from one "site-packages" to another.  Then I have 
>> to figure out why it won't work.  I have fought my way through the 
>> upgrade path twice, and I just can't face it again.
>>
>> Thus endeth the rant.
> 
> Hmm.. I support python versions ranging from 1.52 though 2.6 on some 
> 40-50 production systems and don't have an issue with upgrades.  First, 
> once I stabilize a production system it doesn't get upgrades anymore 

this is where the guy chides: cheat, cheat :)   see below

> unless the machine breaks or the application specs change to the point 
> where upgrade is better than maintaining.  Second, when setting up a new 
> system I always start with the freshest versions of things (barring 
> python 3.x which I haven't yet put in a production environment).
> 
> Upgrading because newer is available has been a problem as long as 
> upgrades have been available.  Just this month some system snuck by me 
> with windows update enabled only to have microsofts auto-update break 
> the applications.
> 
> Just say no to updates...
> 

Welcome to the club!

> Emile
> 
> 

You-all have a great day now! - ya here?

Steve