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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by rubyn00bie on Sunday August 21, 2016 @12:15AM (#12329328)
> And macports has binary distributions now so the awful rebuild-the-world updates aren't as much of a problem anymore

That's really awesome.

> ... has separate packages for every version of python so I can have them all installed at once for testing

Are the package versions themselves configured to be installed side by side? Or are you using multiple copies of macports[1]?

[1] https://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.source.multi...

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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by riffraff on Sunday August 21, 2016 @02:27AM (#12329684)
they work side by side, you can just call "python27" vs "python34" and the same happens for related tools (pip, pep8 etc).

The un-suffixed version ("python") refers to a default that can be switched with a single command affecting all related tools. It's great.

This is not python specific either, it also works with perl, ruby, etc

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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by asf8sdf8 on Sunday August 21, 2016 @07:58AM (#12330582)
now this is a pointless feature.

time to get familiar with https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv

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Re:Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub by bdarnell on Sunday August 21, 2016 @09:49AM (#12330901)
The fact that there is a super-specialized tool to do this demonstrates that it's not a pointless feature. It's much nicer to be able to use macports to install all the versions of python that I need instead of using brew to install pyenv and then pyenv to install python (and then pip to install python packages...)
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