I'm in the process of trying to get stackless deployed in a cluster of machines built from gentoo. Our ops department runs the cluster and requires that all software on the machines be buil as a part of the particular gentoo distribution we're using. They're happy to upgrade package versions, but they are really resistant to building a stackless package for gentoo themselves. I'm really not much of an expert on gentoo myself either, but I'm certainly willing to do what it takes...
<br><br> As I understand it, gentoo has a source-based package system using something called "portage". I'm worried that a stackless package will conflict with the system python, even if the system python is
2.5 or 2.5.1. <br><br>What I'm wondering is:<br>1) has anyone built a stackless package for gentoo? I don't see it on the gentoo package lists but I figure I'd ask here just in case...<br><br>2) I noticed that there are windows binaries that require an existing Stackless implementation, leading me to believe that there might be a way to build a gentoo stackless that merely extends the existing python package? It looks like the windows version is a bunch of dll replacements, so I guess it's basically a binary replacement of the actual interpreter, since all the modules should be the same, huh?
<br><br>Anyway, anyone have any tips for getting stackless deployed in an environment like this?<br><br>Alec<br>