python 2.4 on FC3

John Wendel jwendel10 at comcast.net
Mon Aug 8 15:41:09 UTC 2005


Paul Howarth wrote:
> Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> I have an FC3 on a dedicated (remote) server.
>> I would like to install Zope 2.8
>> It recommends python 2.4 to be installed.
>>
>> would you know if there is some plans to have python 2.4 on FC3?
>>
>> I ask because when I try a "yum update python" there's nothing to 
>> upgrade/update.
> 
> 
> No plans whatsoever. There are a large number of packages in FC3 that 
> are built against the python 2.3 ABI, which would break if python was 
> upgraded. In you really want python 2,4, your best bet is to upgrade to 
> FC4.
> 
> Paul.
> 

Paul,

Is it not possible to have 2.3 and 2.4 both installed? Why not?

Thanks,

John




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