[Twisted-Python] Python 2.7 on CentOS 6

[Ray Cote]

We have a fair bit of Python 2.7 Twisted code deployed on RHEL and CentOS 5
and 6.
In each case, we build from source and do a make altinstall so we’re
running a Python separate from the system’s.
Just takes a few minutes to get everything installed and running.

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>
wrote:

> On 15/12/15 04:16, Amber "Hawkie" Brown wrote:
>
> There is a solution to this, and Nick Coghlan has mentioned it to me
>> many times -- Software Collections for RHEL and CentOS. Software
>> Collections is RH's answer to "new software" on "stable
>> distributions" --  SCLs operate side-by-side with system packages, so
>> it won't break anything. Since you're a CentOS 6.7 user, the standard
>> SCL should work (it's 6.5+).
>>
>
> I really disliked the SCLs when I looked at it. The supported use-case
> seems to be a kind of hugely over-engineered set of wrapper/environment
> setup scripts:
>
> scl enable python2.7 pip install blah
>
> ...ad infinitum.
>
> Personally - and I guess for others as well - the SCLs will be
> off-putting. It's a shame there isn't a simpler solution, namely EPEL
> python2.7 - having a 2nd python in a different path is quite safe, we do it
> routinely.
>
> It's hugely annoying that RHEL6 and derivatives missed out on Python 2.7
> :o(
>
>
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