On 2012-1-19 12:08 , Dan Ports wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 06:43:11PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> Since there used to exist a py-paver port based on python24, you should not >> set python.default_version 27; you should leave python.default_version at >> its default value of 24. > > Maybe it's time for us to consider dropping support for Python 2.4. > It's more than five years out of date and it's increasingly common to > find modules that don't support it. > > Admittedly, the benefit to removing the py24 ports is pretty small, but > I've seen people confused about the fact that py-foo is the python 2.4 > version and they need to install a versioned port like py27-foo instead > to get what they really want. It'd be nice to eliminate that. > > (In fact, it's arguably even worse that now installing py-foo usually > gives you py24-foo if it exists, sometimes gives you py27-foo, and > occasionally gives you something different entirely. We ought to make > the stub ports do something more consistent, or even just give an error > when trying to install the stub.)
The idea was that once all python24 modules are changed to py24-foo and there are no more dependencies on py-foo, the default can change (most likely to 27). - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
