On 28 January 2015 at 21:48, Tetsuya Morimoto <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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. > > I agree. I would like to be able to provide a python27 and python3x in EPEL-5. However the work required to do so is not small and my free time to get it together and working is fleeting. If others have the time to do so, I would greatly appreciate it. > > thanks > Tetsuya > > > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel > > -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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