[Pythonmac-SIG] Building 2.4

[Bob Ippolito]

On Dec 6, 2004, at 12:44 PM, whamoo wrote:

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>>
>> Extremely difficult, because nobody who knows what they're doing is 
>> going to encourage you to replace *ANY* pre-installed Apple software. 
>>  Touching files in /System and /usr (except /usr/local) is primarily 
>> reserved for Apple, and changing anything in there is almost 
>> guaranteed to break something.
>>
>> Install it to the standard place, and change your $PATH such that 
>> /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin.  Then when you type "python" 
>> you get Python 2.4.  That's probably what you actually want, anyway.
>
> But in this way i need to reinstall all third part modules....
> There is a way to use old modules with python2.4 without reinstall all?
> (i have all modulen in (Library/Python/2.3)

No!  You must reinstall all third party modules that have compiled 
extensions.  Python 2.3 and Python 2.4 DO NOT have binary compatible C 
APIs.

-bob