[ python-Bugs-1495488 ] make altinstall installs pydoc

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Bugs item #1495488, was opened at 2006-05-26 14:19
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Category: Build
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Tim Heaney (theaney)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: make altinstall installs pydoc

Initial Comment:

I did the "make altinstall" rather than the "make
install" as suggested on

  http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/

This worked great, creating a 

  /usr/local/bin/python2.5

which doesn't clash with my /usr/bin/python. However,
it also created a

  /usr/local/bin/pydoc

which did clash with my /usr/bin/pydoc. I just removed
it and all is well. Should altinstall not create pydoc?
It could create pydoc2.5 rather than pydoc, but then
the shebang line would have to be changed to python2.5.
What about smtpd.py, idle, and python-config, which
were also created by altinstall? They don't currently
conflict with anything I have for Python 2.4, but the
potential is there for the same problem.



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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2006-06-04 22:02

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You are right: altinstall shouldn't overwrite these
conflicting files. For idle and pydoc, I would think that
altinstall should install version-specific copies - users
actually might want to run an idle or pydoc associated with
a specific version, likewise for python-config. I'm
uncertain why smtpd.py is installed at all.

Would you be willing to work on a patch? You are right that
the shebang line should get updated during the installation,
too.

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