Re: What should we do now?

2001-10-23 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [011023 09:07]: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:31:50AM -0400, David M. Cooke wrote: At some point, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Again, _why_ does this matter? Who does this? Is it even remotely common? That people would even consider

Re: What should we do now?

2001-10-23 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:27:22PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:32:33AM -0700, Neil Schemenauer wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:13:17AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: Say, you would install 2.1.2 in /usr/local. How about we just say

Re: What should we do now?

2001-10-23 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:42:42PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: * Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [011023 09:07]: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:31:50AM -0400, David M. Cooke wrote: At some point, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: [...] Just to make the discussion a little bit

Re: What should we do now?

2001-10-23 Thread William Famy
Neil Schemenauer wrote: ___ [wf:] good morning This is my first mail to this mailing list. I use woody and potato. I use python for my coding. I am waiting to python-pyqt under woody :-) The problems with using #!/usr/bin/python1.5 is threefold: first, it makes

Re: What should we do now?

2001-10-23 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [011023 17:22]: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:42:42PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: Just to make the discussion a little bit more focussed: I think several issues were mixed up in my original mail: Sounds like a plan. (1) For once, #!/usr/bin/env has

Re: What should we do now?

2001-10-23 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:42:12AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:59:45PM +1000, Donovan Baarda wrote: [...] Uh, how many scripts rely on python 1.5? If Debian's main python is 2.1, why should a python 1.5 script remain available? I can't see any reason for this, and I

Re: What should we do now?

2001-10-23 Thread Matthias Klose
Anthony Towns writes: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 06:13:31PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: Regarding (1): If you ask me how common the situation is that people install local Python versions in /usr/local, then I will ask you how common it is that it's reasonable that a script provided by

Re: What should we do now?

2001-10-22 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:13:17AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: Say, you would install 2.1.2 in /usr/local. How about we just say Don't install other versions of python in /usr/local ? Please no. Making this work properly is not hard. Besides, if the magic is

Re: What should we do now?

2001-10-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:32:33AM -0700, Neil Schemenauer wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:13:17AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: Say, you would install 2.1.2 in /usr/local. How about we just say Don't install other versions of python in /usr/local ? Please no.