[Proposal ] Name of Python's port

[Kevin Walzer]

Robert M. Zigweid wrote:

> 
> I can absolutely understand wanting to have multiple versions of python 
> on the system.  That's not what I'm contesting.  But the other 
> packages?  It just doesn't make sense to me to duplicate that work.  Why 
> can't this be handled with varients?  In many cases, it might be 
> something as simple as to symlink the package files from one of the lib 
> directories to the other.  Even in more complicated setups, where there 
> might additional work required, I don't understand why variants aren't 
> used for this.
> 

Python libraries and extensions aren't binary compatible with mulitple 
versions of Python. So, symlinking something from Python 2.4 to Python 
2.5 won't work if it's a binary extension--it would need to be recompiled.

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