Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

Mike Brenner mikeb at mitre.org
Sat May 11 19:43:08 EDT 2002


Sean > ...  Red Hat has a policy that they won't do a major number upgrade within a major number of their distro.  So, going from Red Hat 7.2 to 7.3 won't produce an upgrade of Python from 1.5.3 to 2.2.1 ...


Just curious: How many minutes, nay how many seconds, did it take the Python community to ship Red Hat a Python 1.7 release that happens to be identical to Python 2.2.1, except the label on the CD?






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