On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Larry Brigman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Patrick J. Timlick > <[email protected]> wrote: >> In my "Wierd Things That Happen" experience, one should heed Keith's >> cautions and advice when attempting to upgrade Python. Do just as he says, >> except replace Perl with Python. >> > > Nice jab at Perl. Trying to upgrade Python from 2.4 to 2.5 or 2.6 on a Distro > like Centos 5 is really painful. Not really worth the effort to do a > full replacement.
Are you sure that's a jab at Perl? I read it as saying that when upgrading Python you can run into the same headaches/problems as when trying to upgrade Perl. So just another bit of anecdotal evidence that you need to be careful when trying to change the defaults that a system ships with. Erik _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
