[openstack-dev] headsup - transient test failures on py26 ' cannot import name OrderedDict'

David Ripton dripton at redhat.com
Wed Jul 17 23:29:32 UTC 2013


On 07/17/2013 04:54 PM, Robert Collins wrote:
> On 18 July 2013 08:48, Chris Jones <cmsj at tenshu.net> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On 17 July 2013 21:27, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Surely thats fixable by having a /opt/ install of Python2.7 built for RHEL
>>> ? That would make life soooo much easier for all concerned, and is super
>>
>>
>> Possibly not easier for those tasked with keeping OS security patches up to
>> date, which is part of what a RHEL customer is paying Red Hat a bunch of
>> money to do.
>
> I totally agree, which is why it would make sense for Red Hat to
> supply the build of Python 2.7 :).

FYI,

http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/06/05/red-hat-software-collections-1-0-beta-now-available/

(TL;DR : Red Hat Software Collections is a way to get newer versions of 
Python and some other software on RHEL 6.  It's still in beta though.)

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David Ripton   Red Hat   dripton at redhat.com



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