Garth B. wrote: > When installing from the source, Python does offer a "make altinstall" > which is terrific for installing a newer or older version of Python > alongside an existing installation. > For example, Fedore Core 4 comes with Python 2.4 and as far as I can > tell, > doing a "make altinstall" with the 2.3.5 tarball puts it alongside 2.4 > quite nicely. At any rate, I've had no problems compiling, installing and > running Zope 2.7.6 and 2.8 with it. > HTH
I will certainly give it a try. Many thanks. Tony > On 7/8/05, Paul Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:01:23PM +0100, Tony Addyman wrote: >> > Removing python-2.4 from the system is not an option. Too many thinks >> link >> > in to it. >> >> No need to remove anything. >> Just build python 2.3 and install it in /usr/local (the default). >> >> Then build zope from source like so: >> >> ./configure --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.3 --prefix=... >> make >> make install >> >> Does that not work? I don't see why this is any different from >> the usual case of the distro-provided python or zope being too old. >> >> -- >> >> Paul Winkler >> http://www.slinkp.com >> >> -- Eur Ing A.M.Addyman, School of Computing, Science and Engineering University of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )