> >> Even if their servers won't run ubuntu 11.04+ (or something with the > >> same library paths), their development environments will. > > > >They can also patch the Python releases themselves, or use Ubuntu > >packages that someone else made for them (they can probably just install > >the old 2.4 packages just fine). > > The Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2 packages in Ubuntu 11.04 already have essentially > the same patch that I posted, so folks using Python 2.6 from the operating > system will not have a problem. Without this patch in our repository, folks > building Python 2.6 from source will have to be aware of it.
So let them use Python 2.6 from Ubuntu. Case closed! cheers Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com