[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>Pretty much all the Webware and 3rd party plug-ins invoke the Python
>interpreter by calling "#!/usr/bin/env python" in their scripts. The
>trouble with this is that this call brings up Python 1.5.2 in Debian.
Only if you have the path to Python 1.5.2 before the path to other Python
versions, or you have done a "make altinstall" with those versions, so that
Python 2.0 (for example) is installed as python20.
>The only ways I can think of to get Python 2 invoked instead is to use the
>Debian alternatives system, or else search through all Webware + plug-in
>code to change "#!/usr/bin/env python" --> "#!/usr/bin/env python2".
What I have done is to have Python 2.0 installed in /usr/local, thus retaining
the Red Hat default of Python 1.5.2 (or whatever it is) in /usr. Then, I change
my environment to find Python 2.0 first - this usually involves changing
one's .bashrc file on Linux:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH}
Or something like that. All "#!/usr/bin/env python" at the top of a script does
is force the operating system to find the python program as if you had
typed "python" at the shell prompt. Otherwise, one would have to hard code the
path to python in instead - I have seen numerous Perl scripts
with "#!/usr/bin/perl" at the top, for example.
>Neither option seems good. Messing with the Webware code means that I can't
>keep current easily. Using the alternatives system to point /usr/bin/python
>at python2 will break some Debian packages that depend on 1.5.2, and which
>rely on /usr/bin/python to point to Python 1.5.2.
Don't change any code - just change your environment! If you need to run any
special Debian programs alongside Webware then I'd suggest creating a new user
just for Webware. After all, you're using a multi-user operating system. ;-)
Another option is to create a start-up script which wraps up AppServer. In
this, you could put your environment changes:
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH} ./AppServer
>So, if you use Debian, Webware and Python2, how did you manage to keep the
>balls in the air at once?
I use Red Hat, as I noted above, but the issue is pretty much the same. Well,
apart from the assertion that Debian's package system sucks less than Red
Hat's, but then I'd rather build from source anyway - it doesn't take me long
to find that the configuration of a packaged version of some software doesn't
suit me, thus demanding a reconfigure and a recompile.
Regards,
Paul
P.S. Should this go on the Wiki too?
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