Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:32:47 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: mva@freebsd.org Cc: David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com>, bapt@freebsd.org, koobs@freebsd.org, freebsd-python@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dealing with 2.7 and 3.3 installations Message-ID: <E1V496e-0003oK-7r@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <20130730141133.Horde.0f8kjfhXWCzbnDRbbd9DvA1@webmail.df.eu> References: <CAO%2BPfDdfdhfnyTi0sJzvbJA0GLnOB=3dNme0gn6uhnenzUcjaQ@mail.gmail.com> <20130730095456.Horde.XlxQMdj5YU1hIxf6WAYZOQ2@webmail.df.eu> <E1V460a-0000VO-7t@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <20130730115536.Horde.hJnU1JcPQIOJUsZ_wn7oOw9@webmail.df.eu> <E1V47O1-0001rY-4E@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <20130730141133.Horde.0f8kjfhXWCzbnDRbbd9DvA1@webmail.df.eu>
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> Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>: > > [...] > > > >> > >> So what you need is support for a python module installed for two different > >> python versions at the same time, correct? And this (right now) is not > >> supported, I am afraid. > > > > as I explained, probably not too well, the problem is in the install from > > ports. the check for the installed modules does not check, or > > incorrectly checks for the desired version. > > That's understood quite well, the (big) problem however are not the > site-packages, > but other data installed e.g. under /usr/local/share, .../bin, .../wherever, > which currently does not necessarily take the python version into account. > > x11-toolkits/py-gtk2 is a good example for such an issue. If you install it > for python2.7 , there are heaps of files, which would conflict/overwrite a > previous python3.2/3.3 installation and vice versa, making the port > unusable for > all your python installations except one (in the worst case). > > > setting FORCE_PKG_REGISTER is a workaround, because it does not > > do any deinstall. > > It only is for ports, which keep everything in site-packages or are at least > python-version aware. I understand that there is no magic bullet, but in this particular case, where the question 'is installed' has a bug, can/should be fixed. This does not solve modules that are only python2.7 ok, like py-ldap. cheers, danny
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