[atlas] RIPE Atlas Tools and Python versions

oops, that was meant as an internal heads-up.

Sorry spamming the list.

-- Rene

On 9/23/15 2:44 PM, Rene Wilhelm wrote:
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> On 9/23/15 2:30 PM, Daniel Quinn wrote:
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>>     Of those of you who would find such a tool interesting/useful, how
>>     many of you *only* have access to a computer running Python 2.6?
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>> Such systems include CentOS distributions earlier than 7,
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> which apparently includes RIPE NCC machines:
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>    $ uname -a
>    Linux bastion1.hdp1.ripe.net 2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed
>    Jan 28 21:11:36 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>    $ whereis python
>    python: /usr/bin/python2.6-config /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/python
>    /usr/lib/python2.6 /usr/lib64/python2.6 /usr/include/python2.6
>    /opt/virtualenv/bin/python2.6 /opt/virtualenv/bin/python
>    /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz
>    $ /usr/bin/python -V
>    Python 2.6.6
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> bastion1 is a number crunching front end to hadoop, a place where I 
> run Atlas related jobs.
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> Before dropping support for 2.6, can you guys ensure/coordinate 2.7 is 
> available there?
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> Thanks,
>
> -- Rene
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>> and corresponding RedHat Enterprise systems. If you’re using Debian, 
>> or Ubuntu, you should already have 2.7 by default, and if you’re on 
>> Gentoo or Arch, you probably have both 2.7 and 3.5 already. I 
>> understand that Apple’s OSX is running 2.7 these days as well.
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>> If I don’t get a wave of messages about how very important 2.6 is to 
>> your collective health and wellbeing, I’m going to consider this a 
>> non-issue and drop support for 2.6.
>>
>> Thanks for your input everyone :-)
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