[Yum-devel] urlgrabber & python3

[James Antill]

On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 09:35 -0400, Mike Miller wrote:

> I'm a Debian maintainer who happens to be on list, I can speak up for
> Debian and Ubuntu.
> 
> Python >= 2.6 should be fine for any new upstream releases. All
> current or supported releases of Debian and Ubuntu have some version
> of 2.6 or higher, except Ubuntu 8.04 LTS which is on 2.5 (LTS is
> similar to RHEL). The current default version for both is 2.7.3.

 Yeh, I figured you'd have the latest version available but I thought
Debian had some compatibility stuff where people could easily have
python2.5 or python2.4 installed at the same time as the latest version
using current modules etc.?
 So I was wondering if it would cause any problems there, with
modules/apps. not being able to work in py2.5 mode.

 It sounds like it's not a problem though. 

> I also happen to be a RHEL5 python 2.4 user and I personally have no
> complaints from that perspective. We have successfully upgraded yum
> from the original vendor version, but have not yet had a need to
> upgrade urlgrabber.

 Yeh, it's very unlikely that urlgrabber would get rebased in RHEL-5.