Re: switching to Python 2

[Will P. <pa...@dc...>]

Joel S writes:

> Wearing my Redhat Linux administrator hat, I hesitate.  I
> believe that Redhat continues to include Python 1.5.2 in
> its distributions.  ...

Yes (but not sure about 8.0).  The 7.x distributions have
python 2.x as /usr/bin/python2.

We'll definitely cover those possibilities, if we get to
that.

Jonathan's comment about expat depressed me.  I *hate*
packages that _silently_ turn into one thing (an XML-capable
Python) if the configure script happens to notice something
lying around (expat), and into something else (an
XML-cripped Python) otherwise.  It doesn't yell or anything;
unless you check every configure log *carefully*, you'll
miss these. Bummer.

Will