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Re: [Help-stow] managing multiple versions of software tools
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Guillaume Morin |
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Re: [Help-stow] managing multiple versions of software tools |
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Sun, 21 Apr 2002 13:16:27 +0200 |
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Hi David,
Sorry for the delay...
Dans un message du 12 Apr à 8:30, David T-G écrivait :
> I tried to go to the savannah page to look at the mailing lists and, in
> particular, check out the archives, but I got an error. Please excuse
> the perhaps-oft-asked questions herein! Please also copy me on any
> replies as I try to get myself subscribed (hey, I wonder if this will
> even go through since I'm not yet subscribed...).
It seems to work atm, I guess it was a temporary problem.
> My current thought, not terribly unlike the stow approach, is to have
> each tool in its own separate directory by version, like
> /usr/local/<something>/perl/5.6, and then have symlinks that point to
> the right binaries -- but name and update those symlinks on a
> quarterly or per-project basis, so I have something like
> /usr/local/2002q2/bin/perl or /usr/local/projname/bin/perl linked to
> the appropriate versions.
I think this is the right approach but I must admit that I've never been
confronted to such needs, so I might be wrong :-) Anyway, this is
something you can easily do with stow.
HTH. Regards,
--
Guillaume Morin <address@hidden>
La vie est facétieuse