Hoping to maintain python26 in EPEL5

[Steve Traylen]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at tummy.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:40:05 -0500
> David Malcolm <dmalcolm at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in maintaining a build of python 2.6 for EPEL5,
>> parallel-installable with the system "python" (2.4 in EL5, which I
>> comaintain within RHEL).
>
> ...snip...
>
>> Would people find this useful to have in EPEL5?
>
> I personally would. We have several clients here that use a home grown
> spec/rpm for this, and it would be great to have something like this in
> the community. ;)
Agreed.
> Whats the stance on modules for this python?
> Similar to what we do for python3 in fedora? or forbidden?

Certainly there is a follow up need for modules for this to be useful
to the community. So copying python3 stance in Fedora makes sense.

> I'll see if I can review it at some point, unless someone beats me to
> it.
>
> kevin
>
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Steve Traylen