Installing 2.5 with 2.4?

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Sep 19 10:29:19 EDT 2006


John Salerno wrote:
> Hi all. Just curious, before I do it myself, about the best way to 
> install 2.5 if it's the only version I want to use. Should I uninstall 
> 2.4 first?

if you don't plan to use it anymore, yes.

> Does 2.5 replace 2.4?

no.

> I doubt the latter, but if I install 2.5, does that mean I need to
 > reinstall all the extensions I had for 2.4 again

yes.

> does 2.5 detect them somehow?

no.  extensions built for 2.5 are, in general, not compatible with 
extensions built for 2.4.

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