On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Alan alanwil...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there,
I am thinking about to update my Fink python 2.6 to 2.7.
It's not really an 'update' per se, since different Pythons can coexist
However, as I do an
extensive use of many modules from numpy (which is there for 2.7) to django
(which is not yet) and sometimes not all modules are available yet for
python 2.7, I may need to use something like eazy_install. What I don't know
is if it's safe to do in a first moment 'easy_install django' and later,
when e.g. django-py27 becomes available, fink install django-py27 would
overwrite my previous easy_install django installation?
Have you emailed the maintainer for django?
I'm not sure where easy_install puts files, but very likely it would
install in your Fink tree.
The clear point of using Fink for me is to be able to do 'fink update-all'
and forget it. If resorting to 'easy_install' I would have more painstaking
routine to keep my python modules updated, hence I want to be sure that the
eventual Fink package will free me from this burden.
BTW, is there a easy way to print out all the modules I have installed for
python 2.6 with Fink so it would work as guide for me to update to python
2.7?
fink list -i py26
Many thanks,
Alan
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Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.
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There's another option to consider which involves not a whole lot of
work for you. Once you find your list of packages that you'd like to
have -py27 variants for that don't currently have them, you can edit
the package description as a superuser (you can see which file needs
to be edited by running 'fink dumpinfo -finfofile packagename', making
sure to include the -py26) and add 2.7 to the available python
versions in the Type: python field. Then try to build the package,
and if it works, email the maintainer to let them know that their
package can be trivially updated for 2.7. If it doesn't work, also
email the maintainer to let them know.
--
Alexander K. Hansen
akh AT finkproject DOT org
Fink User Liaison and Documenter
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