<div>When installing from the source, Python does offer a "make altinstall" which is terrific for installing a newer or older version of Python alongside an existing installation.</div>
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<div>For example, Fedore Core 4 comes with Python 2.4 and as far as I can tell, doing a "make altinstall" with the 2.3.5 tarball puts it alongside 2.4 quite nicely. At any rate, I've had no problems compiling, installing and running Zope
2.7.6 and 2.8 with it.</div>
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<div>HTH</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Winkler</b> <<a href="mailto:pw_lists@slinkp.com">pw_lists@slinkp.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:01:23PM +0100, Tony Addyman wrote:<br>> Removing python-2.4 from the system is not an option. Too many thinks link
<br>> in to it.<br><br>No need to remove anything.<br>Just build python 2.3 and install it in /usr/local (the default).<br><br>Then build zope from source like so:<br><br>./configure --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python2.3 --prefix=...
<br>make<br>make install<br><br>Does that not work? I don't see why this is any different from<br>the usual case of the distro-provided python or zope being too old.<br><br>--<br><br>Paul Winkler<br><a href="http://www.slinkp.com/">
http://www.slinkp.com</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>