On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Stef Mientki <stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > > I've just upgraded my system from Python 2.5 to 2.6.4, > and installed the latest packages of a lot of libraries. > > Now one essential package (VPython) only works with Python 2.6.2. > I tried to install Python 2.6.2 over this 2.6.4 installation, > and indeed the readme file says it's 2.6.2, > but the python and pythonw are still 2.6.4. > Why is that so ?? > > Now assume that a number of packages (because compiled with 2.6.4) will not > work correctly with 2.6.2. > Is that correct ? >
2.6.4 is just a bugfix release- it's binary compatible with the other 2.6 releases. So any package that worked under 2.6.2 shouid also work under 2.6.4 unless a new bug was introduced or it relied on a bug that was fixed. And any package that works under 2.6.4 will also work under 2.6.2 without recompiling unless it hits one of the bugs that was fixed. > So the best way would be to reinstall everything ?? > > thanks, > Stef Mientki > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
