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[Karthik Swaminathan Nagaraj <nkarthiks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Aditya Manthramurthy <aditya.mmy@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

>  On Tuesday 13 July 2010 10:15 PM, Karthik Swaminathan Nagaraj wrote:
>
> I am cool with developing using a new version of Python. Couple of
> questions:
>
>    - I am sure this is going to be released with the next version of the
>    distros. But, is this going to be an update for current distros? Eg: Would
>    Fedora 13, Lucid Lynx get Python 2.7 soon?
>
>
> Since Lucid is a LTS release, I think python 2.7 will be packaged for it
> eventually. I don't know about Fedora 13. In general, the system with these
> quick releasing distros is that, new software is rarely packaged for older
> releases, but will be packaged for future releases.
>
>
>
>    - I have not had a chance to get a tarball. What are its dependencies -
>    supposing a user needs to backport?
>
>
> To compile the python 2.7 distribution the only requirement is a fairly
> recent version of gcc. The ones in current releases are sufficient. I have
> myself compiled it on Lucid with the default C compiler and am using it.
> Backporting Python 2.7 to current stable releases of Linux distros, is just
> a matter of compiling it with the appropriate gcc version and packaging it.
>
>
> I think by the time we get to a stable release, Python 2.7 would be well
> into many servers. Lets hope for that. I still see many INSTALL.txts with
> requirements of Python 2.4 (and not 2.6)
>
>  In October, Ubuntu will make its next release which will have Python 2.7,
> so many servers will have it soon after that. It will take some time for our
> s/w to become mature and widely usable. By then, it is likely that python
> 2.7 will not be much of a hindrance to adoption.
>
I was able to successfully compile it on Fedora 13 with gcc 4.4.4.
I am OK with this blueprint. I don't get how you can let many members agree
to it before its accepted. It just looks like one person can accept it.


>
> --
> Aditya.
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Karthik