Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

[Andrew McNamara]

>Red Hat 7.x uses Python 1.52 for many of its configuration and
>administration activities.  Ordinarily, I'd say this was a Good Thing for
>the betterment and furtherance of Python.
>
>However, it makes it deucedly difficult to upgrade away from 1.52.  If one
>upgrades /usr/bin/python to be 2.x, all of Red Hat's custom configuration
>scripts are no longer found in site-packages.

RedHat should have installed a private copy of 1.5.2 for their
admin scripts and let the user choose which version they wanted as
/usr/bin/python.

RedHat, if you're listening, it's things like this that are going to
make me dump RedHat off my systems before long.

-- 
Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
http://www.object-craft.com.au/