Donovan Baarda writes: > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 17:09 -0500, Derrick Hudson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:57:50PM +0100, Pavel Å imerda wrote: > [...] > > At this point we really just need to move the default to 2.4. 2.4 has > > been available for a rather long time now. > > > > -D > > > > PS I am aware of several factors (including C++ and other > > transitions) that resulted in not starting a python transition > > sooner. Regardless, 2.4 isn't "new" anymore and ought to be the > > default. I look forward to seeing this happen :-).
yes. As pointed out, there have been problems with both python-central/python-support, regarding the handling of dependencies. I'm going to upload a new python package which handles recompilation of packages with "private" modules (outside the default sys.path). Then we can start the transition. Still evaluating an extension of python-support, if we can just drop the dependency of pure library packages to the interpreter at all. > Note that Ubuntu transitioned to python2.4 as the default some time ago > (and they have almost complete support for python's all the way back to > python2.1) ... given the appearance of python-minimal I think Debian is > leveraging off their work and will hopefully get there soon. > > In the mean time, another alternative is to point your apt/sources.list > at an Ubuntu archive and see if you can upgrade python from there... ugh, I would not try that ... you cannot differentiate between python and non-python things ... Matthias
