On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:13 AM Tim Rühsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 5/2/19 2:15 PM, Darshit Shah wrote: > > That is a terrible suggestion. Please don't do that or suggest it. > > I'm sure Jeffrey here is capable of knowing what this is and what the > > implications of such a binary are. > > I wouldn't call it 'terrible', but it's definitely not a good idea for > multi-user production environments :-) > > It demonstrates the principle for a system where absolutely nothing else > uses python3 - that's what Jeff was claiming. And so nothing breaks. > It is even not easily possible (or just unwanted !?) to install python3; > if it was easy, Jeff wouldn't have posted the question, I guess.
Yeah, so this is Solaris. Oracle dismantled the packages system to get folks to upgrade or buy a support contract. I can't even run 'pkg update' without errors because Oracle deleted their signing keys. I did try to build Python from sources about a year ago. I had some had trouble (but don't recall what it was). Then I learned Solaris wasn't really a supported platform for Python. They were not really interested in testing the platform and fixing the problems. Jeff
