Re: bin/pip3.12 or bin/pip-3.12

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 03:21:35PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 03:16:27PM +0200, Dr. Thomas Orgis wrote:
> > How would be handle such sofware, if it were to be packaged in pkgsrc?
> > It needs some version of python, with boost-python, which supports
> > differing concurrent pythons, but it itself can only live once in the
> > system.
> 
> I think that's not uncommon, and the main reason we rename bin/foo to
> bin/foo-3.12.
> 
> You can set PYTHON_SELF_CONFLICT for Python packages where there are
> conflicts between py311-foo and py312-foo (etc.)

Just in case there was a misunderstanding about boost-python - we have
py-boost, which is a versioned package, which allows parallel install
for multiple versions of Python.
 Thomas