John,
See the following:
http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PPIOSPE
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:09:52PM -0500, John Ehresman wrote:
> Is it possible to install cygwin python 2.4 while retaining cygwin
> python 2.2 & 2.3? I realize that only one will be available as
> 'python', but things are set up to use python2.2, python2.3, etc
> commands.
I think it is possible if you install the packages manually (without
using setup.exe). AFAICT, only the following files will overwrite each
other:
$ tar -tjf python-2.4.1-1.tar.bz2 | egrep -v '2.4|/$'
usr/bin/idle
usr/bin/pydoc
usr/bin/python.exe
usr/bin/smtpd.py
usr/share/man/man1/python.1
Jason
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