-----Original Message----- From: Baurzhan Ismagulov <i...@radix50.net> To: automake@gnu.org Subject: Re: Multiple version installation Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 23:46:32 +0200
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). Thank you both for your answers. This helps. I had considered the major-minor extensions to the file names as well. These other suggestions sound quite interesting. I'll look into them. Andy
