Re: Multiple version installation

[Andy Falanga (afalanga)]

-----Original Message-----
From: Baurzhan Ismagulov <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Multiple version installation
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 23:46:32 +0200

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).

Thank you both for your answers.  This helps.  I had considered the
major-minor extensions to the file names as well.  These other suggestions
sound quite interesting.  I'll look into them.

Andy