[ovs-dev] installing Python 2.7 on Xenserver (was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Increase prerequisite from Python 2.4 to Python 2.7.)

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 07:23:49PM -0700, Andy Hill wrote:
> > As a consequence, this requires dropping support for old versions of
> > XenServer.  I don't expect that to be much of a problem.
> 
> Unfortunately, the most recent release of XenServer (6.5) still ships
> with Python 2.4.

How hard is it to install a newer Python in parallel with the system
version on XenServer?  I'd guess that RPMs are available.  It shouldn't
be too much work to make OVS use "/usr/bin/python2.7" or whatever
instead of "/usr/bin/python".