Maurice LING wrote: > technicalities are wrong but situation remains unchanged.
For C modules, it is very likely that new versions of Python will continue to break the ABI, by changing the layout of structures. The most straight-forward way to deal with it as a sysadmin or user is to install multiple versions of Python on a single machine. If Fink considers python2.4 as a replacement for python2.3, then this is a flaw in Fink. In Debian, there is a python package, which currently depends on python2.3. Sometime in the future, it will depend on python2.4. Users which update will then get python2.4, however, python2.3 will remain installed and usable, with all the extension modules that were installed for it. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
