Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

[Charles Hixson]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> ...
> 
> Yeah, in a perfect world people would write code that anticipated any
> problems that future releases of the language might cause...  When you
> figure out how to do this, go ahead an submit a patch to Red Hat...
> 
> Sean

It's easy.  Just install the python you want in /usr/local, and change 
your *USER* path so that /usr/local is searched before /usr/bin.

Then as root, you can use the old version, and as the developer you can 
use the one you compiled from CVS (or whichever other version you want). 
  And it you don't specify, you still reach the default install.

If you're tight on disk space, you can either put a link to python2 in 
/usr/local, and have it be named python, or just use the old version. 
(Sorry, limited disk space is a limit.)

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-- Charles Hixson
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