Hi Florian. ** (Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 06:44:27PM +0200) Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > This is actually a follow-up for my thread "Trouble installing Plone". > > Following scenario: I have packages which run on python-2.4 and other > packages which work with 2.5. Zope is a prominent example of the 2.4 gang. > > The problem: When I emerge a python package, for example > dev-python/imaging, it is only installed in the > /usr/lib/python-2.*/site-packages directory of the python version which > is currently enabled by eselect. > > Naturally, this is the most recent version: 2.5. However, as soon as a > python-2.4 package depends on one of these other packages, it just > doesn't work because it expects them in /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages. > > How am I supposed to work around this?
With regards to Zope and Plone, use python2.5 but have python2.4 installed and use buildout[1] to fetch Zope/Plone. Zope needs python2.4 with PIL. A quick fix, is to either symlink or copy /usr/lib/python-2.5/site-packages/PIL* to /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages/ You also need dev-libs/libxml2 (with python) and symlink/copy to /usr/lib/python-2.4/site-packages/{libxml2*,drv_libxml2} When Python dependencies are in place, you can use buildout to fetch Zope/Plone For this you need dev-python/setuptools. PS! When following the guide[1], remember to bootstrap and buildout with python2.4. eg: python2.4 bootstrap.py && python2.4 ./bin/buildout PSS! If you use sudo and have a restrictive umask for your user, you need to lower it to eg 022 before creating the buildout enviroment. > Regards, > > Florian Philipp > Good luck :) [1] http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/buildout -- Khanh Nguyen