Re: What should we do now?

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:32:33AM -0700, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
| Anthony Towns wrote:
| > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:13:17AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
| > > Say, you would install 2.1.2 in /usr/local. 
| > 
| > How about we just say "Don't install other versions of python in
| > /usr/local" ?
| 
| Please no.  Making this work properly is not hard.  Besides, if the
| magic is "#!/usr/bin/env python" then we would have to say "don't
| install other versions of python in your path".

Actually it is simpler than that :

    Don't install other versions of python in your path *with the same
    name as the packaged version*.

If a script does 
    #!/usr/bin/env python2.1

and I install 2.1.2 as 'py212' in /usr/local there will be no clash.


Whether or not it is a good idea, I will leave up to you to decide.

-D