[SciPy-Dev] Required Python Version

[Benjamin Root]

FWIW, NOAA has recently (within the past year, I believe) gotten approval to
*upgrade* to RHEL5.  And because of IT policies, or because they need to run
programs on servers out of their control, many of the users can not
personally update their version of Python away from 2.4.

I am sure there are other government agencies that are in the same boat.

Ben Root



On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Ralf Gommers
> <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:06 PM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Yes, a lot of "enterprise ready"  distributions still use python 2.4
> >> (RHEL, Centos).
> >>
> > That's not a convincing argument for an infinite amount of time. People
> who
> > value "enterprise ready" meaning they run ancient stuff should be
> perfectly
> > fine with numpy 1.4 + scipy 0.8 for a long time from now. And otherwise
> they
> > can upgrade python itself quite easily. 2.4 doesn't even get security
> > updates anymore.
>
> Your argument makes sense to me (and this decision doesn't affect me
> either way), but it isn't actually an infinite amount of time --
> RHEL6, which ships python 2.6, is coming out in a matter of months.
>
> Someone should probably poll the -users list in any case -- people
> running from SVN are not necessarily a representative sample of the
> user base :-)
>
> -- Nathaniel
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