On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 17:08 +0100, Peter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:42 PM, laurent oget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I have built and used Rpy2 on ubuntu so it can be done, however the
> > API are different and replacing rpy with rpy2 in ubuntu packages will
> > break a lot of code using rpy.
> >
> > Laurent
> 
> Laurent is right - simply switching existing  debian/ubuntu packages
> from rpy 1.x to rpy 2.x would be bad.

Yes. Just like gtk2 did not suppress the gtk packages.

>   As with other libraries etc,
> just add new packages with rpy2 in the name for rpy 2.x instead, as
> both can be installed together without problem (I believe).

rpy and rpy2 can coexists (two different package names).
That something that has been considered since the beginning of the
development of rpy2.


L.


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