Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory
by smarx007 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:29AM
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In RHEL those old Python interpreters are available precisely via the system package manager. And they won't support you if you install Python from a 3rd party RPM as I understand.
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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory
by srssays on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:46AM
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And people pay money for that?
Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory
by lmm on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:57AM
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Yes. There are people who value support for a fixed version for 10 or more years much more than they'd value "rolling" support for a "latest" version that they have to keep updating their apps for.
Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory
by srssays on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @11:58AM
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But none of the packages they use will be up-to-date. e.g. Django dropped support for 2.6 years ago and will drop support for 2.7 soon.
Re:Time to Upgrade Your Python: TLS v1.2 Will Soon Be Mandatory
by ubernostrum on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:28AM
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People who use RHEL this way do not keep any third-party packages up-to-date. If that means a decade on Django 1.2, well, they spend a decade on Django 1.2 -- Red Hat will backport security fixes into a Red-Hat-packaged Django 1.2.