From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Redhat ships new versions of almost all programs included in fisher. Even beta versions of some programs are included. The python version included is v1.5.2. This version was released 13 April 1999. Since then, 1.6, 2.0 has been released, and 2.1 is in alpha two stage now. I guess the reason for this is because lots of your admintools are using 1.5.2, and it takes some time to test (and maybe change some) them with 2.0. Ths solution is simple, ship both. It's not a problem at all. /usr/bin/python is a link, today pointing at /usr/bin/python1.5 Include python2.0 and 1.5, have the /usr/bin/python point at /usr/bin/python2.0 and update your scripts to use /usr/bin/python1.5 and it will all work. This is what I have been doing manually for a while... The Python language is growing fast. Please dont let people use an old version. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: - Actual Results: - Expected Results: - -
Python 2.0 is on the Powertools CD of fisher. It will become the default in the next major (.0) release of Red Hat Linux.
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