[TIP] tox-2.0.1 with fixed wheel for py26 released

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Wed, 13 May 2015 18:22:46 +0200, Matěj Cepl writes:
>On 2015-05-13, 14:47 GMT, Laura Creighton wrote:
>> Maybe you should  wait until Red Hat announces 2.7 support for CentOS, their
>> enterprise verison of linux?  They got 2.6 recently, so it may be a
>
>These two sentences manage to contain most confusion per word 
>possible, so let me explain.

Ah, sorry about that, thank you for explaining.

>Red Hat's enterprise Linux distro is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
>(RHEL), not CentOS (which is a free repackaging of RHEL 
>unsupported by Red Hat). There are currently three lines of RHEL 
>alive 
>(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Version_history 
>... ignore the extended support, that's for just a very limited 
>group of users and basically doesn't mean much change at all): 
>RHEL 5 (originally released 2007), RHEL 6 (2011), and
>RHEL 7 (2014). Each has one main default version of Python which 
>won't change for the whole run of the particular version:
>
>    * RHEL 5 has python 2.4
>    * RHEL 6 has python 2.6
>    * RHEL 7 has python 2.7
>
>There is also a possibility to buy additional packages with more 
>recent versions of python (among other software), but they will 
>never change what /usr/bin/python is. That will stay the same 
>for whole run of the version.
>
>Most of the truly enterprise customers start taking a version of 
>RHEL seriously only after one or two minor versions, so by far 
>the most prevalent version of RHEL is now RHEL 6 (hopefully, it 
>finally took over RHEL 5). So if anybody chucks support for 
>python 2.6 effectively unsupports most enterprise users of RHEL 
>for some more years.
>
>Best,
>
>Matěj

Aha, I never understood all of this myself.  Thank you.

The important other bit of information is that there are a lot of
CentOS systems out there.  I keep finding them whenever I go out
consulting someplace ...

Laura