Re: Installing 2.5 with 2.4?

2006-09-20 Thread Duncan Booth
John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. You need to set your path manually. A BAT file called pypath.bat placed somewhere on your PATH and containing: path c:\python%1;c:\python%1\scripts;%path% might come in handy. Warning: this is best used once each time you open up a command window;

Re: Installing 2.5 with 2.4?

2006-09-20 Thread John Machin
Duncan Booth wrote: John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. You need to set your path manually. A BAT file called pypath.bat placed somewhere on your PATH and containing: path c:\python%1;c:\python%1\scripts;%path% might come in handy. Warning: this is best used once each time you

Re: Installing 2.5 with 2.4?

2006-09-20 Thread Tim Peters
[Duncan Booth] Windows is only smart enough to avoid duplicate entries if you tell it to do that. e.g. PATH c:\python25;c:\python25\scripts;%PATH:c:\python25;c:\python25\scripts;=% will add the two Python 2.5 folders to the head of the path without duplicating them. [John Machin[ Wow .. I

Installing 2.5 with 2.4?

2006-09-19 Thread John Salerno
Hi all. Just curious, before I do it myself, about the best way to install 2.5 if it's the only version I want to use. Should I uninstall 2.4 first? Does 2.5 replace 2.4? I doubt the latter, but if I install 2.5, does that mean I need to reinstall all the extensions I had for 2.4 again, or

Re: Installing 2.5 with 2.4?

2006-09-19 Thread Fredrik Lundh
John Salerno wrote: Hi all. Just curious, before I do it myself, about the best way to install 2.5 if it's the only version I want to use. Should I uninstall 2.4 first? if you don't plan to use it anymore, yes. Does 2.5 replace 2.4? no. I doubt the latter, but if I install 2.5, does

Re: Installing 2.5 with 2.4?

2006-09-19 Thread Diez B. Roggisch
John Salerno wrote: Hi all. Just curious, before I do it myself, about the best way to install 2.5 if it's the only version I want to use. Should I uninstall 2.4 first? Does 2.5 replace 2.4? I doubt the latter, but if I install 2.5, does that mean I need to reinstall all the extensions I had

Re: Installing 2.5 with 2.4?

2006-09-19 Thread John Salerno
Diez B. Roggisch wrote: John Salerno wrote: Hi all. Just curious, before I do it myself, about the best way to install 2.5 if it's the only version I want to use. Should I uninstall 2.4 first? Does 2.5 replace 2.4? I doubt the latter, but if I install 2.5, does that mean I need to reinstall

Re: Installing 2.5 with 2.4?

2006-09-19 Thread John Machin
John Salerno wrote: Diez B. Roggisch wrote: John Salerno wrote: Hi all. Just curious, before I do it myself, about the best way to install 2.5 if it's the only version I want to use. Should I uninstall 2.4 first? Does 2.5 replace 2.4? I doubt the latter, but if I install 2.5, does

Re: Installing 2.5 with 2.4?

2006-09-19 Thread John Salerno
John Machin wrote: I'd suggest that you uninstall 2.4 later if at all. Ensure that you have got all the extensions you want/need for 2.5 before you burn your boats. As Diez says in effect, there is no guarantee that any particular extension is available for 2.5 on Windows right now. Thanks