---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Juan Daugherty <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [Nix-dev] Python 2 versus 3 To: Peter Simons <[email protected]>
Just out of curiosity what is the requirement to have both 2 and 3 in the same profile? Why can't you use 2 profiles? On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Peter Simons <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > as of now, it seems to be impossible to install Python 2 and 3 into the same > profile. There is no technical reason for that restriction, rather, the > problem > is that both packages differ only in their version number, i.e. they're both > called "python", so nix-env won't install both of them at the same time. > Another side effect is that "nix -u python" will update the installed version > from 2.6.5 to 3.1.1. This is really not desirable, because Python 3 is a > different thing from Python 2. > > Personally, I need to use both Python 2 and 3 at the same time. There are > several options to accomplish that, but IMHO the most straightforward solution > would be to change the name of the python 3.x package to *gasp* "python3"? > > Does anyone other than me have an opinion regarding this issue? > > Take care, > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > -- =============================================== [email protected] Juan Daugherty on Skype iPhone 01 716 285 0414 (USA) =============================================== -------PGP SIGNATURE Attached If Signed-------= -- =============================================== [email protected] Juan Daugherty on Skype iPhone 01 716 285 0414 (USA) =============================================== -------PGP SIGNATURE Attached If Signed-------= _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
