Robert M. Zigweid wrote:
I can absolutely understand wanting to have multiple versions of python on the system. That's not what I'm contesting. But the other packages? It just doesn't make sense to me to duplicate that work. Why can't this be handled with varients? In many cases, it might be something as simple as to symlink the package files from one of the lib directories to the other. Even in more complicated setups, where there might additional work required, I don't understand why variants aren't used for this.
Python libraries and extensions aren't binary compatible with mulitple versions of Python. So, symlinking something from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5 won't work if it's a binary extension--it would need to be recompiled. -- Kevin Walzer Code by Kevin http://www.codebykevin.com