On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> "Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
> >
> > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > Creating a dependency on Python? Is a non-issue. Current systems that
> > > > are to run 2.5 or 2.6 are bloated beyond belief by glibc already, Python
> > > > is nice and it does not create such unmaintainable mess. Whether
> > >
> > > Python2 - which means most users dont have it.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that's true any more, Alan. Red Hat shipped Python 2 in
> > 7.1, so the RPM-based distros like KRUD and Mandrake have had it for
> > seven months. Debian had it before that.
> >
> > Requiring 2.0 looked aggressive when I did it, but it wasn't -- I could
> > safely project that it would be deployed everywhere except on a set of
> > measure zero by the time the actual cutover happened.
>
> ~# rpm -qa | grep -i python
> python-1.5.2-35
> python-xmlrpc-1.5.0-1
> pythonlib-1.28-1
> rpm-python-4.0.3-1.03
> python-devel-1.5.2-35
<grump> rpm this rpm that.. entirely too many developers are running
canned distros these days.
-Mike
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