bin/foo or bin/foo-x.y?

[Akira Kitada]

py*-setuptools, py*-ipython, py*-virtualenv, py*-django etc...

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2009, at 06:30, Akira Kitada wrote:
>
>> How should I avoid conflict when there are two or more ports
>> installing the same file to the same path?
>> For Python ports, there seems to be a convension that a port that's
>> considered to be "default version" takes the name bin/foo,
>> and ones of other versions use bin/foo-x.y.
>>
>> Is this still valid convension? If so, how can I know what version of
>> Python is "default"?
>
> For the specific case of python{24,25,26,30}, none of these installs
> ${prefix}/bin/python. The python_select port does install this, as a
> symlink, pointing to whatever binary version of Python you instruct it to.
>
> If your question is about software other than Python, what port(s) are they?
>
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