Hi David,
I'm using Python on Mac OSX and although my case is not precisely your scenario but it is pretty common to have more than 1 pythons installed in Mac OSX 10.3, if Fink is used.
If I understand the above correctly, 1) "make install" and "make altinstall" use
the same process, the only difference being the man page update, and the hard
link, and 2) that previous versions of python are not deleted. Therefore I
should be able to install 2.4 without deleting 2.2.2. If I wish to delete
2.3.4, I have to rm -r the appropriate directories. Any caveats?
On the assumption that you are using *nix-based system, there shouldn't be any problems. But you might want to look at /usr/local/bin/py* files and symlinks to get an idea of what you are dealing with.
On MS Windows system, I do not know if there is any registry entries etc to be taken care of.
Is there any
crosstalk between 2.2.2 and 2.4 modules? Thank you.
Every python seems to maintain its own set of libraries and 3rd party packages.
In my case, I've removed Apple-installed python 2.3 by rm -rf the appropriate directories and re-symlinked the links in /usr/lib. Fink had installed python2.2 and python2.3 in my system and they co-exist happily. Each python has its own libraries to use, in my case, in /sw/lib/python2.2 and /sw/lib/python2.3
Of course, depending on which python you use to install 3rd party libraries, it will go into that python's site-package directory. If any causes trouble, I'll guess it will be this.
Hope this helps.
Maurice -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
