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

[John W. Baxter]

On 9/27/06 6:29 PM, "Carson Gaspar" <carson at taltos.org> 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.

Well, to run Mailman later than 2.1.5 (with backports) (I think it is) in
RHEL 4 (or, therefore, CentOS-4), one is looking at building Mailman from
source rather than using official packages.  If one is capable of doing
that, one is also capable of doing an alternative install of a newer Python,
and telling one's Mailman to use that.

Unofficial packages would have to take the Python version problem into
account.

So while the requirement is a nuisance, it's not a show stopper IMHO.

  --John