On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:42:30PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 05:21:39PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> >
> > With the default setup, stuff in /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages would be
> > ignored by 2.0.1. In order to make the transition easier, we might decide
> > to append /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages to the sys.path, though:
> >
> > Almost all pure Python modules that are currently installed in the
> > python1.5 directory will work with 2.0.1; Python 2.0.1 is almost completely
> > backwards compatible, and one might consider all remaining problems bugs in
> > the potato packages.
> >
> > Binary modules in /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages won't work.
> >
>
> well, some time ago I symlinked some modules from python1.5 to python2.0
> (binary ones) and surprisingly they worked (python just printed warning
> message about incompatible API)
That's interesting, I never tried that. Indeed, it seems to work.
I'm not yet clear whether this is a good or a bad thing.
Gregor
