Marshall Dudley wrote: > Is it not possible to install the latest version of python on my FreeBSD > system? Upgrading the FreeBSD is not an option since this is a production > system and everything else is working fine.
that's really a FreeBSD question, isn't it? > You are using: 2.2.2 (#1, Jun 4 2006, 16:29:13) Python 2.2.2 was originally released in 2002, but your copy was built yesterday? did the FreeBSD source kit you got really contain a four year old release? heck, it's not even the 2.2 release in the 2.2 series, and there's been two major releases since then. are you sure you cannot get a *prebuilt* newer version from some FreeBSD repository? or if that's not possible, use the *standard* python.org source kit? after all, it's known to build and install on virtually any modern Unix or Unix-like system (and most non-Unix systems too), and you're free to install it everywhere you want (and the default on Unix is /usr/local, so you don't even have to read the README; just make sure you use the real thing, instead of some botched FreeBSD-specific source kit). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
