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
>
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