From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 22:10:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 22:10:49 -0400 Received: from mclean.mail.mindspring.net ([207.69.200.57]:46124 "EHLO mclean.mail.mindspring.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 May 2001 22:10:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up From: Robert "M." Love To: Jes Sorensen Cc: John Cowan , esr@thyrsus.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <20010505192731.A2374@thyrsus.com> <20010513112543.A16121@thyrsus.com> <20010515173316.A8308@thyrsus.com> <3B054500.2090408@reutershealth.com> Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: Evolution/0.10 (Preview Release) Date: 20 May 2001 22:10:49 -0400 Message-Id: <990411054.773.0.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 21 May 2001 02:29:17 +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote: > John> Au contraire. It is very reasonable to have both python and > John> python2 installed. Having two different gcc versions installed > John> is a big pain in the arse. > > It's not unreasonable to have both installed, it's unreasonable to > require it. > > Eric seems to think he can tell every distributor to ship Python2 > tomorrow. Well it's a fine dream but it's not going to happen; I think this is a very important point, and one I agree with. I tend to let my distribution handle stuff like python. now, I use RedHat's on-going devel, RawHide. it is not using python2. in fact, since switching to python2 may break old stuff, I don't expect python2 until 8.0. that wont be for 9 months. 90% of RedHat's configuration tools, et al, are written in python1 and they just are not going to change on someone's whim. im not installing python2 from source just so i can run some new config utility. (on another note, about the coexist issue: am i going to have a python and python2 binary? so now the config tool will find which to use, ala the kgcc mess? great) -- Robert M. Love rml@ufl.edu rml@tech9.net