On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:15, Iwan Vosloo wrote: > Just a thought... This sounds like a clean approach and powerful. > What if, for example, you work on a machine with python 2.4 > installed, but you want an environment with python 2.5? With what > you're proposing here you could go totally heavyweight and have the > whole python distribution installed in your working invironment > only.
Ick. I'm sure I'm not the only one who remembers telling perl's CPAN module to auto-build all dependencies, only to come back and find it building a new version of Perl to install in a local directory. I really don't like this idea at all. I should point out that I don't mind the working environment idea, just not the idea of a version of Python being built in there. You can already install multiple versions of Python with "make altinstall" (or your distro's packaging system). Anthony -- Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's never too late to have a happy childhood. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
