[Mailman-Developers] [Mailman-Users] OS X & Mailman & Python

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Sep 27, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Carson Gaspar wrote:

> --On Wednesday, September 27, 2006 11:54 AM -0400 Barry Warsaw
> <barry at python.org> wrote:
>
>> Then there is the question of what versions we support for Mailman
>> 2.2, which is currently under development.  Previously we've said
>> we'll support Python 2.3 but I think we should revisit that decision.
>
> If you drop python 2.3, you drop RHEL4. It doesn't effect me  
> personally, as
> I don't run mailman on my RHEL4 servers, but I suspect it would  
> make many
> folks unhappy.

I'm not up on the development/release plans of RHEL.  When do you  
think they might release a version with Python 2.4 support?  The same  
kind of goes for OS X, which ships with Python 2.3 on Tiger.  I have  
no idea what Leopard will ship with, but I'd have to hope that it  
would be at least 2.4.x if not 2.5.x.

I guess my standard answers would be (In no particular order :)

- - It's easy to build an appropriate Python on whatever *nix platform  
you've got
- - I'm sure there are RPMs available for Python 2.4
- - RHEL5 will probably beat Mailman 2.2 :)

I suspect that Mailman won't be the only Python app out there  
applying pressure to upgrade to a more modern (read "supported")  
version of Python.

- -Barry

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