Installed python 2.5 over 2.4 and lost installed packages

[Jason]

On Apr 28, 1:46 pm, ja... at reggieband.com wrote:
> On Apr 27, 8:42 pm, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 27, 8:15 am, ja... at reggieband.com wrote:
> > > I recently updated os x from python 2.4 to 2.5 (from python.org) and
> > > in doing so I lost my old python path entries.
> > > So what is the right thing to do in this situation?
> > > Is cp'ing the files from one place to another safe or advisable?
> > As long as the Python extensions or packages are pure ones, then
> > copying them over shouldn't hurt anything. If you have some that have
> > C/C++ links (such as PIL or pywin32), then you'll need to reinstall
> > those manually.
>
> I tried that and the C extensions burned me.  Syck (for YAML) and
> mercurial (I think ... there were  at least 2 problems) posted
> warnings or bailed out with errors.  Looks like I will delay until I
> have the time and energy to chase all my dependencies.  Perhaps once
> my server (Ubuntu) moves to 2.6 I'll update my Mac at the same time.
>
> From now on I am storing my install packages somewhere accessible
> instead of deleting them once I'm done with them.  I wish I could
> generate a manifest of installed packages to make upgrading easier.
>
> Cheers,
> James.

If you used Easy Install [1] to install your extra packages, go to
your site-packages directory.  You should find a file called "easy-
install.pth".  All packages that Easy Install provided should be in
there.

[1] Found at: http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall

  --Jason