> > Therefore I'm going to package Python 2.0 in a way that it can be installed > parallel to the old Python 1.5.2 packages. The Python 2.0 packages won't > include Readline support though (as well as other things that are covered by > the GPL). >
seeing how 2.0 does break some python, and will continue to do so in the future, it makes sense to support either version of python. Some python C modules may not compile etc. We already have a usr/lib/python-1.5, a -2.0 would not be too hard.