[gentoo-user] Python version 2.5

[gentoo-user] Python version 2.5

[Leandro Melo de Sales]

Hi list,

 I need to install python version 2.5, which in portage it is in hard
testing masked. If I install it anyway, is this mean problem to my
gentoo installation?

Leandro
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[gentoo-user] Re: Python version 2.5

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-02-26, Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@gmail.com> wrote:

> I need to install python version 2.5, which in portage it is in hard
> testing masked. If I install it anyway, is this mean problem to my
> gentoo installation?

IIRC, Python is slotted, so you can have multiple versions
installed simultaneously. However, I'm not sure how you confirm
that without actually emerging 2.5.

If it is slotted, you can emerge 2.5 without removing 2.4, and
2.4 can still be the "selected" python (what's used by default
by all of the Python apps installed on your system).

If you want to test/develop an app using Python 2.5, you'd have
to explicitly call out the python 2.5 interpreter when running
the program.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python version 2.5

[Jürgen Geuter]

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On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 21:00 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-02-26, Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I need to install python version 2.5, which in portage it is in hard
> > testing masked. If I install it anyway, is this mean problem to my
> > gentoo installation?
> 
> IIRC, Python is slotted, so you can have multiple versions
> installed simultaneously. 

Exactly, python is slotted, I've been using python 2.5 for quite a while
here now without any problems whatsoever (apart from some python ebuilds
depending on 2.4 versions).

regards

Jürgen
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