Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Derek Harland <derek@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Creating new ebuilds for Gentoo Prefix
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:40:08
Message-Id: BD83AD66-4C81-495B-A5B1-B8B8F83B7381@chocolate-fish.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] Creating new ebuilds for Gentoo Prefix by Jeremy Olexa
1 Hi Jeremy,
2
3 On 14/07/2008, at 10:46 AM, Jeremy Olexa wrote:
4
5 > Derek Harland wrote:
6 >>
7 >> * Part of what I'd like to do is to get ebuilds for python 2.4.x
8 >> available --- does gentoo support having multiple versions of
9 >> python installed?
10 >
11 > Gentoo supports it, but we don't support Python 2.4. Please look
12 > into overlays and then you can checkout the old python from svn.
13 > Browse on overlay.gentoo.org (you will have to go back a long ways
14 > to find it.)
15 >
16 > What reason do you have for Python 2.4?
17
18 My organisation has a fairly large production code base running off
19 python 2.4 (on solaris/linux) --- we haven't made the transition to
20 2.5 except in various development projects which means it would be
21 ideal to be able to have both 2.4 and 2.5 coexisting (and the 3.0
22 alphas ...)
23
24 >
25 > -Jeremy
26 > (Sorry for the brief-ness, I am in abit of a rush)
27
28 All help is great! I'll look into overlays etc
29
30 Derek
31
32 --
33 gentoo-alt@l.g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-alt] Creating new ebuilds for Gentoo Prefix Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>