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Redhat 7.1 and Python 2.1

Chad Everett chat at linuxsupreme.homeip.net
Thu Jun 14 16:44:22 EDT 2001 
On 14 Jun 2001 13:49:37 -0600, Jason R. Mastaler <jason-dated-993239378.209f87 at mastaler.com> wrote:
>Thomas Wouters <thomas at xs4all.net> writes:
>
>> > > - Why doesn't Redhat ship with Python 2.1?  The 1.5.2 it ships with
>> > > is a little dated isn't it?
>> > Yes, totally.
>> 
>> > The reasons according to a couple RedHat developers are:
>> 
>> >   "Compatibility - the newer versions aren't compatible with 1.5, and
>> >    they don't even store modules in the same location."
>> 
>> >   "Binary compatibility issues. We don't break binary compatibility in
>> >    a minor release, and the binary format for python modules has
>> >    changed."
>> 
>> I find it terribly amusing how those two 'problems' cancel each
>> other out.  Binary compatibility shouldn't be an issue because
>> modules are stored in different locations anyway! It's really not
>> that hard to ship both python1.5 and python2.0 (and python2.1, and
>> python2.1.1, and ... ;)
>
>Apparently what they meant was that a module built for python on Red
>Hat Linux 7.x needs to work on all 7.x releases.  Thus, the primary
>python can't be upgraded during the cycle.
>

And the reason they don't ship with both Python 1.5.2 and Python 2.1 is?



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