Python vs. Fedora and CentOS

[Benjamin Kaplan]

And since they're "using legacy stuff that works" from 3 years ago (no
one upgrades major versions of software in a minor release- hence Win
XP SP3 still coming with IE 6), it's no wonder that they're still on
2.4.

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Someone Something <fordhaivat at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Redhat as always believed in (sorry if this offends anyone): "Use legacy
> stuff that works, we don't really give a flying hoot if the rest of the
> world has moved on"
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> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:55 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy at druid.net> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:43:29 -0700
>> John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>> >    The major Red Hat based Linux distros are still shipping with Python
>> > 2.4.
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>> >    Is anybody trying to do something about this?
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>> Other than not running Linux on our hosting server?  My ISP
>> (http://www.Vex.Net) runs FreeBSD.  Linux is for the desktop.
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