Has Red Hat helped or hurt?

[Richard Jones]

On Wed, 8 May 2002 15:35, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> writes:
> > How have other people handled this?  Do you just copy all of
> > 1.52/site-packages to 2.x/site-packages?  Do you install Python 2.x into
> > a separate directory and grumble every time you have to change the #!
> > line in your scripts?
>
> I personally stopped using Redhat, but I recommend that you install
> the Redhat-provided python2 binary. You could then install all
> additional packages that you need - many of them should install easily
> thanks to distutils.

The python.org python2 linux RPMs install just fine on redhat too.

Distutils makes installing packages a cinch - even to multiple python 
installations (I have 1.5.2, 2.1.3 and 2.2.1 installed here, with most 
packages installed in the latter two)


   Richard