Jason Tackaberry wrote:
Kevin Dangoor wrote:
I'm curious as to why people are still running 2.3. The upgrade from
2.3 to 2.4 doesn't really break things, right? So why stick with 2.3?
I'm presently evaluating TurboGears for an upcoming project and I must
confess that, coming from the lead developer, this statement has given
me pause.
The two big commercial class distros (SuSE Enterprise and RHEL) are
both packaged with python 2.3. Manually upgrading the system install
of python to 2.4 on these distros is an invitation to disaster.
Maintaining a parallel install of python 2.4 is certainly possible, but
it makes me very wary. That's something I do on development boxes, not
production servers.
These distros don't offer pre-built Python 2.4 packages?!? I could say
disparaging things about them if they didn't, but I strongly suspect
they do (and if not them, I'm sure some reputable third-party is
maintaining quality packages for 2.4. I think, before this discussion
gets more philosophical, this basic premise should be checked. I don't
think this is something TurboGears needs to worry about too much,
because Python already handles the version issue very well.
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