Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: installation with ubuntu 8.04

2009-03-13 Thread Jan Claeys
Op vrijdag 13-03-2009 om 04:13 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef John Wagner: > I am sorry to bother about this but I've asked for help from Canonical > with no reply. > They seem reluctant to update Python beyond version 2.5; I'm trying to > install 3.0.1. If you can wait until April 23rd then you

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: installation with ubuntu 8.04

2009-03-13 Thread Christian Heimes
Steve Holden wrote: > Look in the build instructions for "alt-install", and make sure that you > *know* when you install the new Python that it isn't touching the system > Python at all. Always run make -n install and check what the script will > do before running it until you know what you are doi

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: installation with ubuntu 8.04

2009-03-13 Thread John Wagner
Nick: Thanks, man, for even replying. I'm ashamed for posting such a stupid question, and of course, you're right, as I should have known. I'm used to answering people's silly questions about c, and am an utter newb in python; I'm trying to learn Scheme at the same time, so it's kind of hectic a

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: installation with ubuntu 8.04

2009-03-13 Thread Steve Holden
John: First, you have stumbled on to the wring list. Generally a list whose name ends in -dev is for the devs of the project. Hence this is the list where the Python devs live. In future posts like this should be sent to python-list (comp.lang.python). Having said that, Canonical's "reluctance" t

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: installation with ubuntu 8.04

2009-03-13 Thread Nick Coghlan
John, I'm afraid the auto-response to the python-3000 list is a little misleading. That list was for the initial development of python 3.0, and hence the redirect was to this list which is to discuss the *development* of the Python interpreter (both 2.x and 3.x). For more general questions (such

[Python-Dev] Fwd: installation with ubuntu 8.04

2009-03-13 Thread John Wagner
-- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:32 PM Subject: installation with ubuntu 8.04 To: gnuj...@gmail.com This mailing list is closed now. Please use python-dev@python.org instead. -- Forwarded message -- From: John Wagner To: python-3...@p