On 8/24/20 8:05 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 6:50 PM figosdev via freebsd-ports <
freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> wrote:
Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD-- I installed it for the first time this week.
Honestly, so far it has exceeded expectations.
I installed X11, but the first thing I installed was PyPy2.
Unlike CPython2, which is EOL'd, PyPy2 does not to the best of my
knowledge depend on CPython. When I installed it with pkg, it said the port
was deprecated and will be removed from ports soon-- but it also said it
was based on Python 2.7 (which is EOLd).
I think there is a misunderstanding there. PyPy states the intention to
continue to maintain that version.
Removing this port is unnecessary. Aware of the politics around this
(which go way over FreeBSD anyway) I doubt I will convince someone to save
this port, sadly.
I've used both Python 2.x and 3.x for years now. If this problem can't be
fixed, can I at least be put in touch with the current port maintainer so
that I can learn how to maintain this as a 3rd party package for my own use?
I'm certain I'm not up to becoming an official port maintainer at this
stage, but I'd like to be able to at least compile and run PyPy2 on freebsd
without redoing the ports work that was already done on this.
Looks like the deprecation might have been in error. While I can't be sure,
it looks like it is in no way dependent on python27 and, if it is
maintained, it probably was deprecated in error. Probably someone in the
python group saw the 2.7 references and tagged it for deprecation.
You probably should start by contacting python@ and, if there is no
response, open a ticket on bugzilla pointing this out and requesting that
the deprecation be reversed.
i agree - it looks like someone needs to refactor lang/pypy which seems
to build against python2.7. there is a pypy3 port/pkg as well, but that
seems to be incorrectly flagged as being deprecated according to freshports.
i searched bugzilla too but only found an open cleanup ticket there:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245747
-pete
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Pete Wright
p...@nomadlogic.org
@nomadlogicLA
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