On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:41:04PM +0000, Andy Falanga (afalanga) wrote: > I am wondering what techniques are considered most useful for managing > multiple installation of versions. For example, my team produces a C++ > library which we provide both a C++ and a python API. A couple of our > consumers think they will need multiple versions concurrently. Knowing > that this product is both a C++ and Python API how would management of > parallel installations work?
You may want to look at the handling of the methods summarized by Dan in Debian Wheezy (perhaps Qt 4 and 5, python 2.7 and 3). They also support pre-compiling python files for different python versions during package installation (see python-support). With kind regards, Baurzhan.