Marcus von Appen wrote:
> On behalf of the FreeBSD python team, I'd like to announce the availability of
> concurrent, conflict-free python package support in the ports tree.
>
> Why?
>
>   FreeBSD supports different python versions and flavours to be installed at
>   the same time, such as e.g. Python 2.7 and Python 3.3. Ports installing
>   python modules however always assume that that they are installed
>   for only one python version.
>
>   To overcome the flaw in the ports tree that a single port, which is about to
>   be installed for different python versions at the same time, will install
>   conflicting files into the same directories, a change in how those ports are
>   built and installed was necessary.
>   
Be nice if postgresql could do this as well... especially between major 
versions as there is the postgresql binary upgrade utility that seems to work 
very well...

Michelle

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Michelle Sullivan
http://www.mhix.org/

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