[PATCH v2 0/4] Remove support for Django 1.6

[Don Zickus]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 05:20:00PM +0000, Finucane, Stephen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Just to throw another datapoint at folks.  RHEL-7 has this notion of
> > software collections.  It allows customers to update a collection tools to
> > a
> > newer version (RH supported) in the /opt area.  Then using a script (which
> > sets env variables), a program can easily use python3 and postgres9.2 on
> > RHEL-7.
> > 
> > You can read about it here:
> > 
> > https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhscl
> > 
> > and talk with your RH account manager about more of the details.
> > 
> > You would still need to pip install Django, but at least you could get a
> > newer supported python and postgres on RHEL-7.  Not sure how much it helps.
> > Again it was just another datapoint.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Don
> 
> Hey Don,
> 
> I notice Rails is listed as a package there. What's the possibility of getting
> Django added? Nigh-on non-existent? To say Django is widespread would be an
> understatement. I'd envision quite a few users for this package.

Hi Stephen,

First we would have to find a sucker^D^D^Dmaintainer of the package. :-)  I
usually deal with kernel issues and not to much for userspace packages.  I
can poke around but I don't expect much positive feedback..

Cheers,
Don