-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Karanbir Singh a écrit : > 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. > python2.2 is in upstream. but some software need python24 (fail2ban, zope, recent versions of yum? (<off topic>i hate yum ...</off topic>) ) >> 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 ? > Not yet (because of lack of time :) >> 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. > small .. very small?? > 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 > I need to maintain gralinux AS 3 for 2 years, so i will backport stuff from RHAS3 / 5 on it. I will consider your offer soon (could be usefull for the poor Centos3 users :) Regards js. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGM6Dfu8lcDdFEGbYRAtJyAJwKw4Tndrhj52v3gVn5nwa+ttDCgwCfYBWp XHvkYe9247rLstxBraQF2Yo= =YxDa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----