Re: Installing new version, erasing previous versions of Python

2004-12-22 Thread Maurice LING
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 di

Installing new version, erasing previous versions of Python

2004-12-21 Thread David Smith
I currently have Python 2.2 and 2.3.4 installed. I want to install Python 2.4, and erase 2.3.4, but retain 2.2, for I need it for my connectivity program. According to the the documentation: If you have a previous installation of Python that you don't want to replace yet, use make altin

Re: Installing new version, erasing previous versions of Python

2004-12-21 Thread Fredrik Lundh
David Smith wrote: > 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 correct. > 2) that previous versions of python are not deleted. Therefore I should be > able > to inst