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JanC janc13 at gmail.com
Fri May 6 19:49:30 CEST 2005


Oops, sorry for the empty mail...  :-/.

On 5/6/05, JanC <janc13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/05, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> >
> > In other words, Python has "DLL hell" and there isn't a damned thing
> > that a system package manager can do about it other than say "sorry,
> > you can't install FooBar and CheeseFactory at the same time, because
> > FooBar needs BazWibble 1.0 and CheeseFactory needs BazWibble 2.0".
> >
> > Therefore, there needs to be some mechanism to install stuff to an
> > "app-packages" because it's not always possible or appropriate to put
> > everything in "site-packages".

wxPython has solved this more or less with a mechanism that people
allows to use the default version or a specific version.if they want,
with something like this:

import wxversion
wxversion.select("2.4")
import wx

-- 
JanC


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