[rhelv6-beta-list] Python-2.7 is released

[Brian Long]

On 07/14/2010 01:52 PM, Kirby Zhou wrote:
> Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series
> before it moves into an extended maintenance period. This release contains
> many of the features that were first released in Python 3.1. 
> Python 2.7 is planned to be the last of the 2.x releases, so we worked on
> making it a good release for the long term.
> 
> "the last major version" and "for the long term", it sounds like a good idea
> to include it into RHEL-6.

Kirby,

I've found that Red Hat is typically adverse to bumping major revisions
of software this late in the development cycle.  RHEL 6 has been in
development for a long time and I doubt they will make such a major
change as upgrading Python to 2.7.

I remember being part of the RHEL 3 and 4 beta cycles and similar
requests were denied.  When the beta is released, I believe they're
mainly concerned with Anaconda bug fixes and other other small software
glitches.

Just my 2 cents.

/Brian/
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