On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 14:48 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Russell Keith-Magee > <russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote: > > > Like it or not, RHEL is still a major player in the enterprise market > > at the moment. I can't speak for the US, but in Australia at least -- > > when all those companies got on the Linux bandwagon in the mid 2000's, > > they all adopted RHEL, and being large enterprises, they aren't moving > > away from that platform in a hurry. I don't particularly want to rush > > this segment of Django's market share into the arms of another > > framework. > > > > I'd rather defer dropping support for Python 2.4 until Django 1.4; > > that way, we can use the 1.3 release notes to draw attention to the > > impending deprecation. > > > > On top of that, RHEL5 moves into support mode (production 2) at the > > end of Q1 2011, and into long-term support mode (production 3) in Q1 > > 2012. A Django 1.4 release would roughly coincide with the start of > > support mode. Also, by that time, RHEL6 will hopefully be out, > > hopefully providing a more recent Python release as a baseline, which > > will provide a way forward for those with support contracts.
FWIW I've built an unofficial python 2.6 for RHEL5 as part of "EPEL" [1] to try to ease the transition. If you're using EPEL5, then: yum install python26 should get you the interpreter, "python26-devel" for building extensions, etc. This is parallel-installable with the main python 2.4 runtime. A (very small) stack of prebuilt rpms against python26 is also available [2]. Let me know if there are other dependencies you need. This is a personal side-project of mine, and is not officially supported by Red Hat. Hope this is helpful Dave [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=573151&hide_resolved=0 (snip) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
