On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:29 PM, David Malcolm <dmalc...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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.
While this is great work, and may be extremely useful to some, it doesn't fix the problem for the group of people that are most affected -- the people that need to (for business reasons) maintain their official RedHat support contracts. For that group, we have to support the official Python version in RHEL5. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- 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.
