Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up | From | Robert "M." Love <> | Date | 20 May 2001 22:10:49 -0400 |
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On 21 May 2001 02:29:17 +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: > John> Au contraire. It is very reasonable to have both python and > John> python2 installed. Having two different gcc versions installed > John> is a big pain in the arse. > > It's not unreasonable to have both installed, it's unreasonable to > require it. > > Eric seems to think he can tell every distributor to ship Python2 > tomorrow. Well it's a fine dream but it's not going to happen; <snip>
I think this is a very important point, and one I agree with. I tend to let my distribution handle stuff like python. now, I use RedHat's on-going devel, RawHide. it is not using python2. in fact, since switching to python2 may break old stuff, I don't expect python2 until 8.0. that wont be for 9 months. 90% of RedHat's configuration tools, et al, are written in python1 and they just are not going to change on someone's whim.
im not installing python2 from source just so i can run some new config utility.
(on another note, about the coexist issue: am i going to have a python and python2 binary? so now the config tool will find which to use, ala the kgcc mess? great)
-- Robert M. Love rml@ufl.edu rml@tech9.net
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