Fred Wright recently opened several tickets that suggest restoring several Python subports that were deprecated and moved to the Python graveyard a long time ago.
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52636 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52637 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52638 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52639 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52640 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52641 https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52642 I strenuously object to these proposals. A few years ago, I proposed a Python subport/variant policy to reduce project-wide support load. That policy was that we should only provide subports for the two most recent Python versions on each of the 2.x and 3.x branches (modulo some details about termination of upstream support). Thanks to the efforts of many contributors, that proposal has been mostly carried out. We absolutely should not be going backwards on this. Users who wish to work with unsupported versions of Python should use virtualenv to create a contained environment in which they may use the bundled pip, setuptools, and wheel to install any modules they please. The deprecated subports would have to be restored to the virtualenv and setuptools ports; I'd be fine with this. vq _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
