I'm curious about what people usually do when they need to install
python stuff on their unix boxes.

I had to install twisted today on openbsd, and went for the easy
option, leaving everything to the package manager. Result: it was
installed fine, but only in the python2.4 path, and of course my
default is python 2.5, so I had to manually set the final script to
point to the 2.4 executable. This also happens in your average linux
distro: libs that are perfectly compatible across different versions
end up in one place only.

On the face of it, the best thing would be to grab the source, and
then do as many installs as you have python versions installed. But
it's cumbersome, and build dependencies can be a bit of a pain.

So, what do you guys do? Do you rely on the package manager or do
things manually?

cheers
-- 
Giacomo Lacava

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