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<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Mailman currently runs only on GNU/Linux and any other Un*x-like
-operating system, such as *BSD, Solaris, etc. It should work on
-MacOSX but not on MacOS 9. It probably does not work
+operating system, such as *BSD, Solaris, etc. It works on
+MacOS X but not on MacOS 9. It probably does not work
on Windows, although it's possible you could get it running on a
Cygwin system (please <a
href="mailto:mailman-developers@python.org">let the developer
@@ -25,11 +25,11 @@ community know</a> if you have success with this!)
interpreter installed somewhere on your system. Currently Python 2.1
or newer is required, with Python 2.3 or 2.4 being recommended. Mailman
should work with latest patch release on any Python branch from 2.1 to
-2.4, which as of this writing (30-May-2005) is
+2.4, which as of this writing (29-Aug-2006) is
<a href="http://www.python.org/2.1.3/">Python 2.1.3</a>,
<a href="http://www.python.org/2.2.3/">Python 2.2.3</a>,
<a href="http://www.python.org/2.3.5/">Python 2.3.5</a>, and
-<a href="http://www.python.org/2.4.1/">Python 2.4.1</a>.
+<a href="http://www.python.org/2.4.1/">Python 2.4.3</a>.
<p><em>Note that because Python 2.1 and 2.2 are no longer being developed, and
only critical bugs are being fixed on the Python 2.3 branch, it is recommended
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ by executing the following at your shell's command line:
<blockquote>
<pre>
% python -V
-Python 2.4.1
+Python 2.4.3
</pre>
</blockquote>
@@ -62,7 +62,5 @@ for web server, and MTAs such as
should work just fine.
<p>You will need an ANSI C compiler to build Mailman's security
-wrappers. The
-<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">GNU C compiler</a>
-gcc 2.8.1 or later is known to work
-well.
+wrappers. All modern versions of the
+<a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/">GNU C compiler</a> should work well.