Python 1.5.x vs Python 2.x.x

[Suchandra Thapa]

Fernando Pérez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>All the scripts for which this is an issue are distributed by them, as part 
>of their own system setup. So they can point every script which explicitly 
>needs 1.5 to use it.
>
>They cause their users a fair amount of annoyance and I have yet to see a 
>solid technical reason to justify it. My post from yesterday included ways 
>out of this with (as far as I could tell) reasonable solutions for them. 
>Yesterday someone from redhat was around on this thread (or the /usr/bin/env 
>thread), I'm curious to hear from them. There may be a solid technical reason 
>for them doing things this way, but so far I'm unconvinced.

    What about users and other vendors that have working python scripts that
use things that have changed between python 1.5 and 2.x?  It would be a bit
embarassing for redhat to claim compatibility between major versions and 
suddenly have working python scripts break after doing a point upgrade.

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