"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Creating a dependency on Python? Is a non-issue. Current systems that > > > are to run 2.5 or 2.6 are bloated beyond belief by glibc already, Python > > > is nice and it does not create such unmaintainable mess. Whether > > > > Python2 - which means most users dont have it. > > I'm pretty sure that's true any more, Alan. Red Hat shipped Python 2 in > 7.1, so the RPM-based distros like KRUD and Mandrake have had it for > seven months. Debian had it before that. > > Requiring 2.0 looked aggressive when I did it, but it wasn't -- I could > safely project that it would be deployed everywhere except on a set of > measure zero by the time the actual cutover happened.
~# rpm -qa | grep -i python python-1.5.2-35 python-xmlrpc-1.5.0-1 pythonlib-1.28-1 rpm-python-4.0.3-1.03 python-devel-1.5.2-35 Just another megaton unnecessary programming language to compile somehting like the kernel? I think you are exaggerating the problem. _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
