Adding Requests to the standard library [LWN.net]

Adding Requests to the standard library

Posted May 4, 2015 3:48 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Adding Requests to the standard library by mjg59
Parent article: Adding Requests to the standard library

my understanding is that the new versions use the same names as the old ones, so that if you want to install both, you have to rename one version (with the included hassle of changing everything that links to it to link to the new name)

I don't use Gnome, but I remember people complaining about this when Gnome 3 came out.

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Adding Requests to the standard library

Posted May 4, 2015 3:50 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (2 responses)

> my understanding is that the new versions use the same names as the old ones

Do you have any specific examples?

Adding Requests to the standard library

Posted May 4, 2015 3:58 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

no, as I said, go back and look at the discussions around the time that Gnome 3 was released and all the people who wanted to use the old version, but couldn't.

Adding Requests to the standard library

Posted May 4, 2015 4:00 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

Those were discussions about whether it was possible to install multiple versions of binaries, not libraries.