Am Dienstag, den 29.11.2005, 17:16 +1100 schrieb Alan Milligan:
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Hi, ... With the major distro's, Python is entrenched in their installer and gui processes and *all* packaging is focused around a single python (2.4 for everyone excepting our BastionLinux).
Not so true. ...
We are getting an increasing number of people attempting to load incompatible packages. It is not possible to downgrade python. Most of userland is not competent to get a secondary python2.3 installation running - especially when packages such as python-ldap are simply not available for their old python and new ldap etc etc which all requires custom package builds.
Aha. python2.1-ldap - A LDAP interface module for Python 2.1 python2.2-ldap - A LDAP interface module for Python 2.2 python2.3-ldap - A LDAP interface module for Python 2.3
We are also stuck in a time-warp actually having to back-port a large proportion of recent linux packages because we'd like to make new features available, increasing costs and testing requirements. It is also no longer possible for customers to subscribe to just a single channel because our core is substantially different to their chosen vendor's installation, and packages will be installed into meaningless python paths etc.
Can someone please give me an ETA on this, so I can decide if and how to support zope in light of other pressing linux requirements for our distro.
Well, while it would certainly fine to have said audit, it isnt really a problem - every since different python versions could happily coexist on every platforms I've seen. Even on win32. But someone has to do it. If you feel the itch - would you help scratching it at least? ++Tino