Upgrading question

Wildemar Wildenburger wildemar at freakmail.de
Wed Sep 20 21:23:15 EDT 2006


Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
> s99999999s2003 at yahoo.com wrote:
>> i am working in unix and my Python version is 2.4.1
>> I would like to upgrade my version to 2.5 stable. but i have many
>> scripts already running using 2.4.1. ...
> 
> other than that change the link in /usr/bin/python to point to 2.5 
> instead of 2.4

Do you think that's a good idea? What if the system's scripts depend on 
libs that aren't installed (or worse: not available) for 2.5?

I'd look into that first.

wildemar



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