2.3 on Debian Woody: doable?

[Jan Dries]

Rene Pijlman wrote:
> There doesn't seem to be an apt package for Python 2.3 on Debian Woody.
> 
> Should I expect unusual difficulties or unsolvable problems when building
> and installing 2.3 on Woody from the source distribution of Python?
> 
> E.g. things like dependencies on other libraries that are not available on
> Woody?
> 

I've installed 2.3 from source on a minimal Debian Woody, and it went 
flawlessly. The only extra software I had to install was BerkeleyDB for 
the bsddb package to work, but that has nothing to do with Debian.

Regards,
Jan