Globally-visible executables with parallel python 2 and python 3 stacks

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 18:49 -0500, David Malcolm wrote:
> 
> Thanks.  As I understand it, the alternatives system is a host-wide
> configuration setting: only one set of things can be at use at a time on
> a host; that seems too blunt for this, alas - I think people should be
> able to use a mixture of programs written with both stacks. 

Alternatives is system wide, but it can be per application.  So you can
decide which apps use python3 and which use 2.6.

if you want to go further you can make it per-user with environment
modules.

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Jesse Keating
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