Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-28 Thread Keith Dart
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Markus Dittrich wrote: Tom, It is fairly easy to compile and install python from source - you could simply keep your personal python 2.3 in e.g. ~/local and let gentoo use the default 2.2 install. That's what I have been doing in the past. Just be sure to use make

[gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, Just want to know about the status on python 2.3. Does portage is totally ready for python 2.3 and python 2.3 ebuild stable?? If the both question is positive, what should I do in order to install python 2.3 on my box? update portage then python 2.3?? how about those python modules?? How

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Marius Mauch
On 10/27/03 Zarick Lau wrote: Hi, Just want to know about the status on python 2.3. Does portage is totally ready for python 2.3 and python 2.3 ebuild stable?? We hope that there are no problems left with portage and python-2.3, but as there are some incompatibilities between 2.2 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Robert Kruus
It is rumored that on Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:39:54 +1300 Tom Eastman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:17:50PM +0800, Zarick Lau wrote: Hi, Just want to know about the status on python 2.3. Does portage is totally ready for python 2.3 and python 2.3 ebuild stable??

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Tom Eastman
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 07:17:28PM -0500, Robert Kruus wrote: If you check out the python ebuild in portage, you will see it is slotted for 2.3. I don't have it installed, but I assume it works (it is still set as ~x86 though). So technically, you could have it installed at home HTH Oh

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Markus Dittrich
Tom, It is fairly easy to compile and install python from source - you could simply keep your personal python 2.3 in e.g. ~/local and let gentoo use the default 2.2 install. That's what I have been doing in the past. cheers, MARKUS On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Tom Eastman wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, Thanks for all your kindly response! Right, it leads me to some question on the slot mechanism. The slot stuff is nothing but making different version of pkg to coexist on the system. Then, it there a way to setting the current version to user? Is there any convention used whenever there are

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.3 ready?

2003-10-27 Thread Zarick Lau
Hi, Thanks for all your kindly response! Right, it leads me to some question on the slot mechanism. The slot stuff is nothing but making different version of pkg to coexist on the system. Then, it there a way to setting the current version to user? Is there any convention used whenever there are