Hello EasyBuilders, I have just sent this email to the GC3Pie mailing-list [0] but, since a growing number of GC3Pie users are only using it through EB (and the audience here is much more tech-savvy than GC3Pie's), I would also like to hear opinions from this community before we make any plans.
Ciao, R [0]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gc3pie/qARLZBfcmdY ------------ begin forwarded message ------------ Dear GC3Pie users, it has been increasingly complicated to support Python 2.6 in GC3Pie releases, as OpenStack and other major components of the Python ecosystem are now supporting only Python >=2.7. In addition, dropping Python 2.6 is a move we would have to do anyway when we start working towards Python 3.x support (many 3.x constructs were backported to Py 2.7 but not 2.6). As far as I understand, Python 2.6 is currently still the default Python on CentOS 6.x and 7.x, and simply forcing a system-wide upgrade breaks basic system utilities (including `yum`). There seem to be at least two viable options to get Python 2.7 properly installed on a CentOS system: * Use Anaconda Python2 [1] ("miniconda" is enough for GC3Pie) * Use CentOS/RHEL "software collections" [2], [3] Is there anyone running GC3Pie on CentOS for whom neither of the two alternatives listed above would be practical? [1]: https://www.continuum.io/downloads [2]: https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/SCL [3]: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/SCLo/CollectionsList Ciao, R -- Riccardo Murri http://www.s3it.uzh.ch/about/team/#Riccardo.Murri S3IT: Services and Support for Science IT University of Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich (Switzerland) Tel: +41 44 635 4208 Fax: +41 44 635 6888
