Uwe Mayer wrote: > How do you suggest dealing with this: > - is calling /usr/bin/python2.3 in the bang-line problematic? > - installing into both python2.3 and python2.4 > - rebuilding (re- ./configure, make, make install) the app solves the > problem > > Whats the usual way to deal with this?
People normally often install multiple versions of Python on a machine if they need to support many different Python applications. They then migrate one application after another to the new Python version, and eventually uninstall the old version. Putting python2.3 in the bang line should work fine, so if you can arrange to find all scripts that need to be changed, that might be the easiest solution. For rebuilding, you probably would need to do some testing whether everything still works fine; if it does, this is likely what you will do in the long run either way - at some point, on a new machine, it will be easier to recompile your application than installing python2.3 from sources. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list