On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 27 January 2015 at 20:45, Tetsuya Morimoto <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Orion Poplawski <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On 01/27/2015 08:21 PM, Tetsuya Morimoto wrote: >>> >>>> For EPEL5, we can install python26 packages from epel repository. >>>> >>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Python26 >>>> >>> >>> If I read the messages correctly, I believe this will be going away soon. >> >> >> Really? That's unfortunate. >> >> >>>> It would be nice if we can install python3 (python33 or python34) as >>>> same as python26. >>>> >>> >>> I'm sure it would be, but EL5 is OLD at this point and not getting much >>> love in the volunteer space. >> >> >> Yes, but RHEL5/CentOS5 support continues until 2017-03-31 (extended >> support is 2020-03-31), so I just thought it would be nice. I'll contribute >> some work if SCL repository is available on CentOS 5.x. >> >> > It gets support because people are paying Red Hat to do various support > work. Volunteer projects like EPEL, rpmforge, elrepo, SCL's etc rely on > contributions of people willing to do the work. When people only take and > no longer contribute, it begins to fall apart. [This comment is not aimed > at you, it is more of a general comment that many consumers of these repos > don't consciously understand.] > I see. I mean many consumers might use CentOS5 with python24 (or 26) until 2017-03-31. I think that providing python3 on CentOS5 makes them easy to migrate a newer CentOS version (or Python 3), like ensurepip backported to python27. thanks Tetsuya
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