On 7-Dec-06, at 3:51 AM, Luc Heinrich wrote:
As of today, the Python 2.5 port is an island. It has the correct
dependencies and builds correctly, but it also has some major
problems which makes it mostly useless:
1. The Python framework is not created (--enable-framework is not
specified in the configure args).
2. The 'python' symlink to 'python2.5' is not created.
3. All MacPorts python libraries and applications depend on
port:python24 or are part of portgroup:python24.
Is there a specific reason for (1) and (2) or is this just an
overlook ?
More importantly, is there a way to workaround (3) and use MacPorts-
managed python libraries and applications with port:python25
instead of port:python24 ? A way to ignore dependencies maybe ?
(which wouldn't completely work for all ports though, the python
variant of port:boost uses a hardcoded python version variable for
example)
I don't know the answer to all of these issues, but I do know that
Martin Costabel has been working on Python2.5 and specifically that
he has built boost and visual libraries for 2.5. This work lives in
the unstable tree until it has been tested enough to be moved to
stable, so if you want the cutting-edge stuff, maybe checking out the
work in unstable would be worthwhile.
--Dethe
This [the adoption of open source software] isn't just my idea, or
Brazil's idea. It's the idea of our time. The complexity of our times
demands it." --Gilberto Gil, Brazilian Minister of Culture
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