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 -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
