On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:45:30AM -0700, Larry Brigman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Patrick J. Timlick > <[email protected]> wrote: > > In my "Wierd Things That Happen" experience, one should heed Keith's > > cautions and advice when attempting to upgrade Python. Do just as he says, > > except replace Perl with Python. > > > > Nice jab at Perl. Trying to upgrade Python from 2.4 to 2.5 or 2.6 on a Distro > like Centos 5 is really painful. Not really worth the effort to do a > full replacement.
Some are misunderstanding Pat. He did not mean replacing system Perl with system Python. He endorsed my suggestion regards Perl. His suggestion was to s/Perl/Python/ to my message and treat Python the same way. That is, leave /usr/bin/python alone and make upgrades to /usr/local/bin/python . A wise extension of a basic philosophy - let updates manage the distro, make improvements to /usr/local . While a dependency-free distro would be a nice dream (why oh why can't dependencies be managed per individual tool, not whole systems?), in reality a change to one tool affects many others. I run distros, rather than roll my own, because I'm relying on The Upstream Vendor to do the regression testing for me. I suspect there are other tools in the distro that should be left alone, with upgrades going into /usr/local/bin instead. Perhaps the C compiler. Other suggestions? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
