Re: How to handle different versions of Python

On 7/09/2007, at 8:54 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

Well if the goal is simultaneous installation of multiple versions of python, then a single portfile with variants is not an option, since you cannot simultaneously install multiple variant versions of a single port. Only one version of a port can be active at once. So you need separate ports, as we have now.

I agree. However would it not be possible to (theoretically) have a variant install extra files, so that something like port install some-python-package +python2.5 +python2.4 would install files for both python2.4 and 2.5? I'm not suggesting this as solution ... I don't think its very nice, its more a question for my own understanding of macports. derek