Anthony Towns <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 10:14:17AM +0100, J�r�me Marant wrote: > > * we make /usr/bin/python point to python 2 thanks to alternatives > > Oh gag. This was the same thing that's made perl such a mess. The major > problem (or one of them) is that packages that need python 2 can't rely > on /usr/bin/python actually being python 2 if you do this.
I'm just proposing this as a good start for reflexion but it is rather different than perl as all modules that are specific to a given interpreter cannot be access by another interpreter. Well, if you make python2-specific modules depend on python2, they'll be sure that python2 is installed. Then you can warn people that they can only switch to an earlier version thanks to a small script that runs update-alternatives and does a compileall in /usr/lib/python/site-packages as I explained. And thanks to a small change in the interpreter, the current version looks for modules in /usr/lib/python/<version>/site-packages and then /usr/lib/python/site-package. Other modules are invisible. -- J�r�me Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://jerome.marant.free.fr
