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Re:Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative buil... by pekk on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @11:49AM (#5245303)
What's misleading in these requirements is that the "Python 2.6+" spec implies support for Python 3, which the Ansible authors have actually said they won't support for ideological reasons. It would be more accurate to write "2.6/2.7".
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Re:Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative buil... by mpdehaan2 on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @12:21PM (#5245561)
Not ideological reasons but more so pragmatism. But sure 2.X series.

And 2.4+ nodes can be managed.

Once Python 3 is the thing everywhere I'm sure we'll have compliance. Ditto with, say, OpenStack which is also holding off. You kind of treat them as two different languages to a degree, if you still want to support things like RHEL 5 (2.4), you have to.

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