RELEASED Python 2.4 (final)

[Dave Merrill]

Should have been more specific.

As I recall, after I installed 2.4rc1 I installed the latest versions of
wxWindows and SPE IDE into it. The 2.4 copy of SPE died silently when
started, which I can accept as a incompatible versions.

What was strange to me was that at that point, the 2.3.3 copy of SPE did the
same thing. After I uninstalled 2.4, SPE ran again under 2.3.3, and that's
what I'm using now.

What caused this kind of interaction between installs? SPE and wxWindows
both live in site-packages, which I would have thought would make them
Python-version specific.

Dave Merrill

"Stefan Behnel" wrote:
>
> Dave Merrill schrieb:
> > Newb question: Is it possible/recommended  to have multiple versions of
> > Python installed simultaneously? Earlier, I installed 2.4rc1, and a
number
> > of things in my 2.3.3 install stopped working. Are there known
techniques
> > for managing multiple versions?
>
> Short answer: depends on your OS.
>
> I assume "stopped working" means: libraries were missing. This means that
> "managing multiple versions" already works for you. The libraries are
> installed for Python 2.3 and only 2.3 uses them. That's the expected
> behaviour. Install them for 2.4 as well and everything should work fine.
>
> Stefan