Re: Multiple version installation

[Baurzhan Ismagulov]

On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:41:04PM +0000, Andy Falanga (afalanga) wrote:
> I am wondering what techniques are considered most useful for managing
> multiple installation of versions.  For example, my team produces a C++
> library which we provide both a C++ and a python API.  A couple of our
> consumers think they will need multiple versions concurrently.  Knowing
> that this product is both a C++ and Python API how would management of
> parallel installations work?

You may want to look at the handling of the methods summarized by Dan in
Debian Wheezy (perhaps Qt 4 and 5, python 2.7 and 3). They also support
pre-compiling python files for different python versions during package
installation (see python-support).

With kind regards,
Baurzhan.