[oi-dev] Can I still install older perl and python?

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 05/12/17 05:01 PM, Gordon Ross wrote:
> Admittedly, this one of the things about IPS that has
> long bother me.  It's very "opinionated".
> IPS "knows better" than I do what packages should
> be installed, and in what versions, etc. and if I don't
> happen to agree (i.e. in this case, please don't just
> remove Python 2.5) well, that's just too bad.

It's true for any distribution. For example, on updating my Ubuntu web 
servers, python 3 was updated from 3.4 to 3.6 (IIRC) and I had to 
rebuild modules which were used by application. I don't think this is an 
issue. The issue is the absence of releases, when we say, that this 
interface is supported for one major release. Long discussed /stable 
branch and question of its life cycle. But again, I'm not going to 
support several git branches of OI. If someone wants it, he is really 
welcome.

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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department