On 09/08/2009 03:56 PM, Steve Traylen wrote:
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Stephen John
Smoogen<smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Kevin Fenzi<kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 12:28:35 -0500 (CDT)
>> Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Should we have a stronger effort to replace older RHEL packages if we
>>> put them in their own namespace and don't conflict?
>>
>> Well, how much interest is there in this?
>> How many packages would we have?
>>
One thing we often do at users/developers request is role say
python2.5 to install along side the system python2.3.4 on say EL4 where
we aim for it to do no harm. Users have to explicitly call it.
I'd be very happy to see and submit things like that.
So the one problem with this is the logistics of also building new
python modules. You probably don't just need python2.6-2.6.x, for
instance, you also need python-pycurl built against python2.6,
python-setuptools, TurboGears, et al. This is not undoable, but it is a
package explosion.
-Toshio