Python versions (was Re: os.execl())

[Mats Wichmann]

At 12:07 PM 8/28/2001 +1000, Richard Jones wrote:
 >On Tuesday 28 August 2001 08:27, Mats Wichmann wrote:
 >> Unfortunately Red Hat have recently decided that they won't change
 >> major versions of key packages on minor Red Hat releases... so we're
 >> stuck with Python 1.5.2 as the default until, oh, about RedHat 8.2.
 >>
 >> Folks need to be told that Linux is wonderful, but Red Hat doesn't
 >> necessarily prove that in their choice of what to bundle...
 >
 >Mandrake 8.0, a red-hat-alike (which I find significantly nicer than Red Hat
 >from a non-sysadmin user installation perspective) shipped with python 2.0
 >some months ago. Mandrake's point-zero releases seem eminently usable...
 >
 >I'm currently running 2.0 at home in a bog-standard install and 2.1.1 from
 >the Mandrake cooker at work. No complaints in the months I've been using 
them
 >both, and I'm a full-time Python developer.
 >
 >I think that people need to know that Red Hat is not Linux.

I happen to run Mandrake as well, but any time you pop up with
a "recommendation" someone else has lots of evidence why their
favorite distro is better so I tried to leave that out.