On Oct 05, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: >-On [20101004 20:48], Barry Warsaw (ba...@python.org) wrote: >>On Oct 02, 2010, at 01:40 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >>>Besides, mingling different installations together makes uninstalling >>>much more difficult. >> >>Not for a distro I think. > >It does. On BSD the ports and packages are referred to a specific >location in the ports tree, e.g. ports/lang/python26, so any Python >2.6 compiled and installed from ports with specific options will >*always* point to this location. So if you want to install 2 versions >of Python 2.6 with different options, you are out of luck using the >standard way.
Do any BSD distros provide multiple different builds of Python to their users? How do they handle having a debug build or non-debug build? -Barry
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