July 3, 2005
9:32 p.m.
On Jul 3, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
Most (90%+) of the libraries I work with don't depend on a Python version. But unfortunately when using easy_install/eggs they always have an explicit version, and multiple installations are necessary otherwise.
You shouldn't have a site-packages that multiple Python interpreters are stomping on.. so I don't see how you can avoid this anyway.
Generally speaking, all pure-Python packages are version independent. At least on the source level. I suppose .pyc files aren't always (though they haven't changed for a long time, have they?) -- would it be reasonable to have version-independent packages?
Python 2.4 can use Python 2.3 bytecode, but not vice versa. -bob