On Feb 20, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > The local install may require virtualenv or gcc which may not be > available and require root permission.
It may not be possible, I suppose, but that's a different matter than the host forbidding it. > > On Feb 20, 10:32 am, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> >> >>> I also have made this case but when it was brought up for discussion >>> NOBODY spoke in favor of keeping 2.4 compatibility. >> >>> Is yours a general statement or is 2.4 critical for you specifically? >> >>> On Feb 20, 6:55 am, LightDot <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> There is a bunch of shared hosting providers that still use RHEL/CentOS 5 >>>> and have not upgraded python nor they wish to - that's the point of having >>>> RHEL/CentOS. You don't manually upgrade or add things. >> >>>> And on most shared hosting providers you can't install your own version of >>>> python. Trying will most likely get you deleted from the server. >> >> I'm curious what the objection of a hosting provider would be to installing >> a (local) copy of another python version. Why would they care?
