jean-seb wrote: > Maybe for Centos team :) Firstly, there seems to be some confusion here - you are asking about the amountof work required to port python-2.x into centos-3 which is odd. Mainly because centos-3 already has a python-2.x. > that's not the case for Gralinux AS3 (postfix/mysql come from RHAS4, > php5 from RHWS) > That's why I "lose" my time to backport things like python24, php5 for > the old Gralinux; maybe this work could be > useful to Centos ? sure, we have a centos-plus repo, have you considered contributing to that ? > RHAS3 (and Centos 3 of course) is a real good distribution, and very > stable :) , so backport software to it is not a bad idea I think. feel free to submit patches, CentOS as a distro will stay close to the distro-objective of being as close to upstream as is reasonable - however, being community and project driven there are enough alternative paths on offer to support 'divergent paths' as long as they remain 'optional' to the user and their use is clearly defined. > Maybe a little "survey" of "what Centos are you using" could be a good > starting point to know if Centos3 could have some backports? I disagree. Surveys of this nature never really bring up a true picture of reality out there. We do have some reasonable idea of what percentage of the users are running C3, and trust me - compared to the number of people using CentOS-4/5 the -3 users are a very small number now. But that does not mean we dont want to do anything with CentOS-3 anymore - so if you were to submit patches, they will get considered in the right repo/path. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq