Re: site-packages versus site-python

2005-03-06 Thread Steve Holden
msoulier wrote: Well, broadly, the reason is that it allows version-specific code to be included in libraries. I've actually found this to be a bit of a pain. I build packages against say, python2.2, and if you upgrade python to 2.3 the package breaks. The code works fine so saying it requires pyt

Re: site-packages versus site-python

2005-03-05 Thread msoulier
> Well, broadly, the reason is that it allows version-specific code to be > included in libraries. I've actually found this to be a bit of a pain. I build packages against say, python2.2, and if you upgrade python to 2.3 the package breaks. The code works fine so saying it requires python >= 2.2 s

Re: site-packages versus site-python

2005-03-05 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed python 2.4, and many installed software packages stopped working. Some things got working after I copied some files and directories from /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages, but I also had to install a newer PyXml packag

site-packages versus site-python

2005-03-05 Thread enrio
I recently installed python 2.4, and many installed software packages stopped working. Some things got working after I copied some files and directories from /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages, but I also had to install a newer PyXml package, as some of the files t