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Red Hat as the "next Redmond"Red Hat as the "next Redmond"Posted Aug 27, 2002 19:23 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137)In reply to: Red Hat as the "next Redmond" by rdieter Parent article: Red Hat as the "next Redmond" Red Hat has pushed its users toward bleeding-edge versions of gcc while providing (and requiring) ancient versions of Python. I'd like to comment further on the Python situation. The reason that Red Hat has used 1.5.2 for the longest time now is that some of the system tools that they ship as part of the 7.x series use Python, and Red Hat has a policy of not breaking compatibility within a major number series. Seeing that they're targeting the "enterprise" market they don't want to do this too often. So Python has been lagging far behind while waiting for gcc 3.2 to be released so that Red Hat can ship a new major number series. It was just bad luck that Python 2 wasn't ready for Red Hat 7.0.
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