Fink has long supplied multiple versions of major languages, and even "older than OS X supplies" ones to ease migration from older OS X versions. However, keeping "very old" versions around forever is a maintenance/testing pain, and newer versions of various modules for the languages may not work at all with older verisons of the languages. OS X 10.5 comes with python 2.5 and perl 5.8.8, so we are planning to EOL python < 2.5 and perl < 5.8.8 as of OS X 10.5 and only carry python >= 2.5 and perl >= 5.8.8 into whatever comes after 10.5.
Maintainers of python- or perl-using script packages should update to using one of the modern versions: python 2.5 and 2.6 and perl 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 are available on 10.4 and 10.5 so you can keep the same .info for all distributions. All -py24 and -pm586 module packages will soon be tagged for the 10.4 and 10.5 distributions only (-py23 and -pm<586 are already restricted to 10.4). Note that in general, one does not need to tag Distribution or Architecture of a .info, as these fields default to "any and all". May as well assume it works everywhere unless you know it does not or cannot, rather than blocking actual testing on systems that have not been tried. dan -- Daniel Macks [email protected] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
