03.12.2012, 11:44, "Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mjd at reanimality.com>:> One of the most conservative distributions is Debian.RHEL/CentOS is more conservative. RHEL 6 ships Python 2.6.6, RHEL 5 (which is still widely used) ships 2.4.3 -- Regards, Konstantin
This is an orthogonal issue. There is nothing saying the system Python version has to be 2.7+, just that a local version exists. Python is very simple to build on Linux. Certainly any admin of an RHEL pre-6 cluster can install a version somewhere. Does the default GCC installation on RHEL 4 even build LLVM/Clang anymore, or do you need an "experimental" package of GCC 4.1 or a local build of 4.x? On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru>wrote:> > 03.12.2012, 11:44, "Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mjd at reanimality.com>: > > One of the most conservative distributions is Debian. > > RHEL/CentOS is more conservative. RHEL 6 ships Python 2.6.6, RHEL 5 (which > is still widely used) ships 2.4.3 > > -- > Regards, > Konstantin > _______________________________________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev >-- Thanks, Justin Holewinski -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20121203/23c9c349/attachment.html>
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:> > 03.12.2012, 11:44, "Marc J. Driftmeyer" <mjd at reanimality.com>: >> One of the most conservative distributions is Debian. > > RHEL/CentOS is more conservative. RHEL 6 ships Python 2.6.6, RHEL 5 (which is still widely used) ships 2.4.3 >This is a good point to consider. If RHEL 5 ships 2.4.3 and is officially E-EOL in 2020, and we want to stick to "system Python" everywhere, this means we plan to have our Python code running on Python 2.4.3 until 2020? I doubt that anyone considers this seriously. Eli
On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Eli Bendersky wrote:> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen at yandex.ru> wrote:>>> One of the most conservative distributions is Debian.>> RHEL/CentOS is more conservative. RHEL 6 ships Python >> 2.6.6, RHEL 5 (which is still widely used) ships 2.4.3> Python 2.4.3 until 2020? I doubt that anyone considers this seriously.Extended support lifespans, probably not, but main support intervals, certainly tens of thousands of paying customers subscribe to Red Hat's model (or the hundreds of thoudsands usig CentOS rebuild of the same sources) take a stable API quite seriously One thing I am missing here is: What is the ** NEED ** for chasing a later Python version? -- Russ herrold