Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

[Cliff Wells]

On Sun, 12 May 2002 16:49:06 -0600
Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:12:35AM +0200, Christian Tanzer wrote:
> >IMHO, the distribution should not force a specific Python version to
> >be the default. I.e., having /usr/bin/python point to 2.x should not
> >break any number of Red Hat utilities. Forcing the user to specify a
> >Python version in the #! line or on the command line sucks.
> 
> Yeah, in a perfect world people would write code that anticipated any
> problems that future releases of the language might cause...  When you
> figure out how to do this, go ahead an submit a patch to Red Hat...

I think the better solution has been mentioned here several times:  if Red Hat
is going to build utilities that require a certain version of Python (which is
not unreasonable) then they should have a special installation called
"python-rh" or something and use that rather than require users to name their
version "python2" or whatever.

Hopefully they will take this approach when 8.0 comes out.

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