Modern development environment on dated RHEL

[Evgeny Budilovsky]

Why not compile all the latest software on some shared directory and then
run it from there ...
My company have policy not to give root access on development stations so I
just compile all my development software in home directory and use it from
there ...


2010/4/27 Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at gmail.com>

> Due to company's policy, our development desktop stations must have RHEL
> 4.7 installed on them.
> However, RHEL's packages are extermely out of date (for instance, it still
> have python 2.3, etc.), and we wish to use many up too date development
> tools (I'm not aiming to the bleeding edge, however a stable release from
> the last year seems to me a desirable goal).
> We mostly need user-space software (editors, scripting environment, etc.).
> What's the best method to
>
>    1. Use reasonably new user-space software on RHEL 4.7
>    2. Not to break too much the entire RHEL echosystem, or at least
>    provide to ourselves a clear way to upgrade the foreign packages we'll
>    install.
>
> I'm not really familiar with managing Red-Hat distribution, so any advice
> will be welcomed.
> Thanks
>
>
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